'acting' definitions:
Definition of 'acting'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the acting president"
noun
Synonyms of 'acting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
Words containing 'acting'
- act,
- act as,
- act for,
- act on,
- act out,
- act up,
- acting out,
- acts,
- Act of God,
- Act of Uniformity,
- Act of Union,
- Act of faith,
- Act of grace,
- Act of indemnity,
- Act of insolvency,
- Act of settlement,
- Acts of sederunt,
- Black act,
- Declaratory act,
- Entr'acte,
- Mutiny act,
- Private act,
- Reform acts,
- Ripper act,
- Schism act,
- Stamp act,
- Test act,
- To act possum,
- act involuntarily,
- act like,
- act of terrorism,
- act reflexively,
- act superior,
- act upon,
- acts of the apostles,
- class act,
- enabling act,
- legislative act,
- method acting,
- overt act,
- public act,
- rico act,
- riot act,
- sex act,
- special act,
- speech act,
- terrorist act,
- Chinese Exclusion Act,
- Direct-acting,
- Double-acting,
- Self-acting,
- Single-acting,
- Workmen's compensation act,
- Yazoo Frauds Act,
- create by mental act,
- creating by mental acts,
- long-acting,
- read the riot act,
- fair-trade act,
- foreign intelligence surveillance act,
- occupational safety and health act,
- Back-acting steam engine,
- Direct-acting steam engine,
- Direct-acting steam pump,
- racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act