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Definition: Tartufe |
TartufeNoun1. A hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Tartufe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Synonym: TartufeSynonym: Tartuffe (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 | Adverb: falsely; Adjective: a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly; (cunning). |
Impiety | Sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite; (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "Tartufe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | người giả nhân giả nghĩa (tartuffe), người đạo đức giả (tartuffe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Tartufe": tartufes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fatter, tauter, tufter. | |
-2 letters: after, feuar, tater, tetra, treat, urate, utter. | |
-3 letters: fare, fate, fear, feat, feta, frae, frat, fret, raft, rate, reft, tare, tart, tate, taut, tear, teat, tref, tret, true, tufa, tuft, turf, urea. | |
-4 letters: aft, are, arf, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eau, eft, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, feu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: aflutter, tartufes, tartuffe. | |
+2 letters: butterfat, fortunate, frustrate, tartuffes, ultraleft. | |
+3 letters: butterfats, featurette, frustrated, frustrates, platterful, refutation, trifurcate. | |
+4 letters: autografted, featurettes, fortunately, platterfuls, plattersful, refutations, suffragette, superfatted, trifurcated, trifurcates, unfortunate. | |
+5 letters: aforethought, afterthought, fluidextract, flutterboard, gratefullest, interfaculty, postfracture, putrefaction, putrefactive, quarterstaff, suffragettes, titaniferous, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, unflattering, unfortunates, unstratified. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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