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Definition: Hypocrite |
HypocriteNoun1. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hypocrite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression hypocrita, Greek one who plays part on the stage, dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises. I I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be We, but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but fine. The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to cloak his loot. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A horse dealer. From Grk. hippos, horse, and kroteo, to beat. One who beats you on a horse trade. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Hypocrite one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that anyone has acted the hypocrite with you, you will be turned over to your enemies by false friends. To dream that you are a hypocrite, denotes that you will prove yourself a deceiver and be false to friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Hypocrite (3 syl.). Prince of hypocrites. Tiberius Caesar was so called, because he affected a great regard for decency, but indulged in the most detestable lust and cruelty (B.C. 42, 14 to A.D. 37). Abdallah Ibn Obba and his partisans were called The Hypocrites by Mahomet, because they feigned to be friends, but were in reality disguised foes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HypocriteSynonyms: dissembler (n), phoney (n), phony (n), pretender (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon. |
Falsehood | Cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive. |
Impiety | Sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite; (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hypocrite |
| English words defined with "hypocrite": Slapeface ♦ Tartufe, Tartuffe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hypocrite": CANT, Chaneph, CROCODILE'S TEARS ♦ Nitouche ♦ Olivia ♦ Pecksniff. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hypocrite": Slapeface. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hypocrite" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (double faced, double-minded, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, hypodermic, insincere, two faced). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You hypocrite! (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak) You little hypocrite! You don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about it (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard) I can't believe that Miranda, she is such a hypocrite. Which she will never admit (Lizzie McGuire; writing credit: Ole Kolster) I don't know how they finally settle things in this world or the next, but when the day comes I'll stand there with my chin up and take what's coming to me. And I wouldn't trade places with you, you white-livered, sweet-smelling hypocrite if they gave me a one-way ticket to Hell (The Silver Horde; writing credit: Rex Beach; Wallace Smith) | |
Lyrics | That hypocrite smokes two packs a day ("Fight for Your Right (to Party)"; performing artist: The Beastie Boys) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dear Old Hypocrite (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Baudelaire | Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother! |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. |
Horace | False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite. |
St. Jerome | It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. |
William Hazlitt | The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. |
| A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Hypocrite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.45% of the time. "Hypocrite" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.45% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hypocrite": be a hypocrite ♦ sanctimonious hypocrite. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hypocrite | 105 |
hypocrite quote | 7 |
buy hypocrite | 4 |
definition hypocrite | 3 |
christian hypocrite | 3 |
define hypocrite | 3 |
hypocrite jefferson thomas | 2 |
hypocrite poem | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hypocrite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hipokrit (affected, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, Pecksniff, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, phoney, phony). (various references) | |
Arabic | منافق (dissembler, double, double faced, double-dealer, double-tongued, hypocritical, insincere, prig, two faced), مراء (dissembler, double faced, insincere, two faced, two sided), سراء (joy, weal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лицемернича (be a hypocrite). (various references) | |
Chinese | 偽君子 , 偽善者 , 伪君子. (various references) | |
Czech | pokrytec (jesuit), licomìrník. (various references) | |
Dutch | veinzer, hypocriet (hypocritical), huichelaar. (various references) | |
Esperanto | hipokritulo. (various references) | |
Farsi | متصنع , سالوس (Hyporisy), زرق فروش , ادم ریاکار (Bigot), ادم دورو (Janusfaced), باریا (Hypocritical). (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkokullattu ihminen, tekopyhä (hypocritical), teeskentelijä. (various references) | |
French | hypocrite (hypocritical, hypodermic). (various references) | |
Frisian | huchelder. (various references) | |
German | Heuchler (canter, chadband, dissembler, hypocrites). (various references) | |
Greek | υποκριτήσ (dissembler, shammer, simulator). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתחס" (mealy mouthed, pharisee, prude, sanctimonious, smarmy), עיט צבוע, ח ף (flatterer, sinner, wicked), צבוע (insincere, painted, pharisaical, pharisee, smoothy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | álszent (canter, hypocritical, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, sanctified, sanctimonial, sanctimonious, self-righteous), képmutató (dissembler, dissimulator, hypocritical, pharisaical, Pharisee, simular man, snuffler), hipokrita (hypocritical). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang munafik, munafik (smooth-faced, smooth-tongued). (various references) | |
Italian | ipocrita (chadband, dissembler, hypocritical, pious, sanctimonious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 偽君子 (snob), 偽善者 (fox in a lamb's skin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎぜ"しゃ (fox in a lamb's skin), ぎく"し (snob), にせく"し (snob). (various references) | |
Manx | kialgeyr (cheat, con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, illusionist, plotter, schemer, swindler, trickster, twister), foalserey (deceive, deceiver, sycophant), fer crauee foalsey (religious bigot). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hykler. (various references) | |
Papiamen | hipokrit, farizeo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ypocritehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hipcrita (hypocritical), hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-faced, two-tongued), beato (beatified, blessed, blissful, canonized, devotee, devout, happy, pietist, pious). (various references) | |
Romanian | ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe), fariseu (pharisee, Saint), fãţarnic (ambidexter, dissembler, dissembling, double, double-tongued, false, hypocritical, smooth-faced, treacherous), comediant (comic, dissembler, mummer), caiafã (dissembler). (various references) | |
Russian | ханжа (Pharisee, prude), лицемер (dissembler, dissimulator, Jesuit, mucker, painted sepulchre, virtuous in name, whited sepulchre). (various references) | |
Scottish | cealgair (deceiver, rogue). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hipokrita, licemer (pecksniff, weasel). (various references) | |
Spanish | hipócrita (ambidexter, canting, double dealing, double faced, double-handed, double-hearted, hypocritical, lip, two faced). (various references) | |
Swedish | skrymtare, hycklare (canter, dissembler, dissimulator, Pecksniff). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้เสแสร้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | ikiyüzlü (counterfeiter, double, double dealing, double-dealer, hypocritical, insincere, janus-faced, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, shammer, simulator, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, soft spoken, two faced), iki yüzlü (ambidexter, ambidextrous, bilateral, disingenuous, dissembler, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, double-minded, double-tongued, false, hypocritical, insincere, left handed, pharisaic, pharisaical, shammer, slimy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, two sided). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), святенник (canter, goody goody, puritan), лицемірний (cant, canting, double dealing, double-tongued, histrionic, hypocritical, jesuit, left handed, self-righteous, specious), лицемір (cant, canter, jesuit, pharisee). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ giả nhân giả nghĩa, kẻ đạo đức giả. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhagrithiwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | hypocrita, hypocritae, hypocritam, hypocritas, hypocritis, simulator. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En stomati asebwn pagiV politaiV aisqhsiV de dikaiwn euodoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Simulator ore decipit amicum suum iusti autem liberabuntur scientia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The feynere in mouth desceyueth his frend; riytwis men forsothe shul ben deliuered with kunnyng. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Pinaagi sa iyang baba ang tawo nga dili-diosnon magalaglag sa iyang isigkatawo; Apan pinaagi sa kahibalo ang tawong matarung mamaluwas. |
| Chinese | 不 " 敬 的 人 " 口 敗 壞 鄰 舍 ． 義 人 卻 知 識 得 救 。 |
| Croatian | Bezbožnik ustima ubija svoga bližnjega, a pravednici se izbavljaju znanjem. |
| Danish | Med sin Mund lægger vanhellig Næsten øde, retfærdige fries ved Kundskab. |
| Dutch | De huichelaar verderft zijn naaste door den mond; maar door wetenschap worden de rechtvaardigen bevrijd. |
| Finnish | Rietas suullansa turmelee lähimmäisensä, mutta taito on vanhurskaitten pelastus. |
| French | Par sa bouche l`impie perd son prochain, Mais les justes sont délivrés par la science. |
| German | Durch den Mund des Heuchlers wird sein Nächster verderbt; aber die Gerechten merken's und werden erlöst. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun ki san respè pou Bondye ap touye moun ak lang yo. Men, konesans ap sove moun k'ap mache dwat yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Percakapan orang jahat membinasakan; hikmat orang baik menyelamatkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dengan mulutnya juga orang munafik membinasakan, jikalau sahabatnya sekalipun, tetapi dengan pengetahuannya orang yang benar itu meluputkan dirinya. |
| Italian | Con la bocca l'empio rovina il suo prossimo, ma i giusti si salvano con la scienza. |
| Maori | ¶ Hei huna mo tona hoa te mangai o te tangata whakaponokore; na ma te mohio te hunga tika ka mawhiti ai. |
| Norwegian | Med munnen ødelegger den gudløse sin næste, men ved sin kunnskap utfries de rettferdige. |
| Rumanian | Cu gura lui omul nelegiuit pierde pe aproapele squ, dar cei neprihqniyi sknt scqpayi prin wtiinyq. |
| Russian | хУФБНЙ МЙ"ЕНЕТ ЗХ'ЙФ 'МЙЦОЕЗП УЧПЕЗП, ОП ТБЧЕ"ОЙЛЙ ТПЪПТМЙЧПУФША У БУБАФУС. |
| Swedish | Genom sin mun fördärvar den gudlöse sin nästa, men genom sitt förstånd bliva de rättfärdiga räddade. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hypocrite": hypocrites. (additional references) | |
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"Hypocrite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gypcrete, hipocrite, hippocrite, hippurate, hypacrite, hypnocrite, hypocite, Hypoclinea, hypocrate, hypocrete, hypocrist, hypocrit, hypocrita, hypocrits, hypocro, hypocrtie, hyppocrit, hyprocite, hyprocrite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hypocrite" (pronounced hi"pikri't) |
| 3 | -r i' t | Barret. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: pitcher, potiche, pyretic, trophic. | |
-3 letters: ceriph, cherty, chirpy, cipher, cither, coheir, copier, copter, cotype, crypto, cypher, ephori, erotic, hector, heriot, heroic, ochery, ophite, orphic, photic, pitchy, poetic, poetry, pother, pricey, protei, pyrite, recopy, rochet, rotche, theory, thoric, thorpe, thrice, tocher, torchy, troche, trophy, tropic, typier. | |
-4 letters: chert, chiro, chirp, choir, chore, citer, coper. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: hypertonic, hypocrites, xerophytic. | |
+2 letters: copyrighted, heterotypic, hypothermic, hypsometric, pyrotechnic. | |
+3 letters: chalcopyrite, hyperostotic, hypertrophic, hypochlorite, phenocrystic, psychometric, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist. | |
+4 letters: bacteriophagy, chalcopyrites, copyrightable, cryotherapies, dryopithecine, hypercautious, hyperfunction, hypermetropic, hyperromantic, hypertonicity, hypervelocity, hypochlorites, lycanthropies, orthoepically, phreatophytic, phycoerythrin, prophetically, psychometrics, psychometries, psychrometric, pyrotechnical, pyrotechnists. | |
+5 letters: cinematography, cryptographies, cyproheptadine, dermatoglyphic, dryopithecines, erythropoietic, hypereutectoid, hyperexcretion, hyperfunctions, hyperkeratotic, hypermetabolic, hypersecretion, hyperviscosity, metaphorically, nephrotoxicity, orthopedically, peritrichously, petrochemistry, photochemistry, phycoerythrins, phytochemistry, prosthetically, psychoneurotic, psychrometries, pyelonephritic, pyrheliometric, spermatophytic. | |
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