'Impostor' definitions:
Definition of 'impostor'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Impostor'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'impostor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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