Impostor

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impostor \Im*pos"tor\, n. [L. impostor a deceiver, fr. imponere
     to impose upon, deceive. See {Impone}.]
     One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character
     or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a
     pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." --Milton.
  


     Syn: Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See {Deceiver}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impostor
       n : a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: {imposter}, {pretender},
            {fake}, {faker}, {fraud}, {sham}, {shammer}, {pseudo}, {pseud},
            {role player}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "impostor":
     ape, beguiler, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat,
     clinquant, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat,
     copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler,
     dissimulator, dummy, echo, echoer, echoist, fake, fakement, faker,
     flimflam man, forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, hoax,
     humbug, hypocrite, imitation, imitator, impersonator, imposter,
     junk, malingerer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mock,
     mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, paste,
     pettifogger, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly,
     polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, put-on, put-up job, quack,
     quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sham,
     shammer, shark, sheep, shoddy, shyster, simulacrum, simulator,
     swindle, swindler, tinsel, trickster, whited sepulcher
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  IMPOSTOR n.  A rival aspirant to public honors.