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Definition: Dissimulate |
DissimulateVerb1. Hide from others, as of feelings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissimulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dissimulate |
| Etymologies containing "dissimulate": Dissimule. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dissimulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dissimulate" is used about 2 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dissimulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtirem (affect, dissemble, feign, impersonate, pretend), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, enshroud, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, sink, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), راءى (dissemble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | симулирам (feign, malinger, sham, simulate), лицемеря (cant, dissemble, humbug), преструвам се (affect, dissemble, fake, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, sham, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přetvařovat se (dissemble), předstírat (affect, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, sham, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فریب دادن (Bob, Cheat, Deceive, Delude, Doin, Fool, Hoodwink, Hum, Humbug, Jape, Mislead), پنهان کردن (Cache, Cloak, Closet, Conceal, Cover, Disguise, Dissemble, Eloign, Hide, Mask, Secrete, Shadow, Wrap), دوروءی کردن , برروی خودنیاوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dissimuler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verheimlichen (conceal, hide, hold back, keep secret, to dissimulate, veil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποκρίνομαι (cant, counterfeit, dissemble, feign, pretend, profess, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"עמי" פ ים (affect, feign, make believe, pose, pretend, sham, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tettet (feign, make believe, pretend, to affect, to assume, to counterfeit, to feign, to pretend, to simulate), leplez (dissemble, to cloak, to cover, to mask, to screen, to veil, to veneer, unfold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berpura-pura (pretend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissimulare (disguise, dissemble, feign, keep back, whitewash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, counterfeit, dissimulation, feign, feigning, feint, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, profess, sham, simulate, simulation), keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulation, harbour, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil, veneer), follaghey (bo-peep, cache, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, dissimulation, hide, hiding, muffle, occult, occultation, secrecy, secrete, veil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issimulateday desigualdade (acerbity, difference, dissemblance, dissimilarity, earmark, imbecile, inequality, odds, roughness). (various references) disimula (dissemble), se preface (adulterate, be pretending, dissemble, falsify, feign, kid, make believe, make pretence of, pose, pretend, show), se ascunde (abscond, couch, dodge, go in, hide, hide oneself, mask), masca (blanket, conceal, disguise, hide, mask, Masquerade, veil). (various references) симулировать (feign, sham Abraham, simulate, skulk, swing the lead), лицемерить (cant, mump), притворяться (act a part, affect, assume, assume a mask, feign, make believe, play a part, playact, put on a mask, simulate, wear a mask). (various references) prikriti (conceal, cover up, hush up). (various references) disimular (cloak, conceal, cover, dissemble, Fox, hide, obscure, pretend, suppress). (various references) dölja (cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, hide, occult, plant, screen, shroud, veil, veils), simulera (affect, dissemble, fake, feign, malinger, pretend, sham, simulate, swing the lead), låtsas (affect, assume, dissemble, feign, let on, pretend, pretends, sham). (various references) duygularını gizlemek (dissemble), taslamak (affect, assume, pose, posture, pretend to, put it on), ikiyüzlülük yapmak, belli etmemek (pocket, swallow), başka türlü göstermek (dissemble). (various references) приховувати (becloud, blind, cache, cloak, conceal, disguise, dissemble, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, obumbrate, palliate, put by, salt away, stash away, subduct, veil, vizor, wry), прикидатися (affect, counterfeit, feign, pretend, profess, sham, simulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dissimulate": dissimulated, dissimulates. (additional references) | |
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"Dissimulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disimulate, dissimalate, Dissimulare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-m-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dismalest, dualities, idealisms, idealists, lassitude, medalists, missuited, simulated, simulates. | |
-3 letters: delimits, dialists, diastems, dualisms, dualists, duelists, elitisms, idealism, idealist, limiteds, litmuses, medalist, miladies, misdates, misdeals, misdealt, misdials, misedits, misleads, sedilium, simulate, slimiest, stadiums, utilised, utilises. | |
-4 letters: aidless, aimless, almudes, amities, amulets, assumed, audiles, auldest, autisms, dailies, daisies, damsels, dauties, delimit, delists, demasts, desalts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-m-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dissimulated, dissimulates. | |
+2 letters: unassimilated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 69 6D 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... .. -- ..- .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s i m u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 0069 006D 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858575798778678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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