'put on' definitions:
Definition of 'put on'
From: WordNet
adjective
Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
verb
Put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into, don, assume]
verb
Add to something existing; "She put on a sun room"
verb
Put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!"
verb
Carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game" [syn: put on, turn in]
verb
Add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip"
verb
Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play" [syn: mount, put on]
verb
Apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!" [syn: put on, apply]
verb
Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
verb
Increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising" [syn: gain, put on] [ant: lose weight, melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin]
Synonyms of 'put on'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerate,
- act,
- act a part,
- administer,
- affect,
- affectation,
- affected,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apocryphal,
- apply,
- apply to,
- artificial,
- artificiality,
- assume,
- assumed,
- back answer,
- banter,
- barge in,
- bastard,
- be a gas,
- be a hit,
- befool,
- bestow,
- bet,
- bill,
- blanket,
- block,
- bluff,
- bogus,
- bomb,
- break in,
- break in upon,
- brummagem,
- burden with,
- burst in,
- butt in,
- canopy,
- caustic remark,
- chaff,
- change,
- charge,
- charge in,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- colorable,
- colored,
- come between,
- comeback,
- cope,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cover,
- cover up,
- cowl,
- crack,
- crack on,
- crash,
- crash in,
- crash the gates,
- creep in,
- crowd in,
- curtain,
- cut,
- cut in,
- cutting remark,
- deceit,
- deceive,
- deception,
- demand,
- dig,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distorted,
- do a bit,
- don,
- dose,
- dose with,
- dramatize,
- draw on,
- dress in,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- dump,
- dupe,
- eclipse,
- edge in,
- elbow in,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encroach,
- enforce upon,
- engage,
- enjoin,
- entrench,
- ersatz,
- exact,
- facade,
- face,
- factitious,
- fail,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- false,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsified,
- fasten upon,
- feature,
- feign,
- feigned,
- feigned belief,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- film,
- fleer,
- flop,
- flout,
- foist in,
- foist on,
- foolery,
- force,
- force upon,
- forgery,
- four-flush,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- freight with,
- front,
- gain ground,
- gamble,
- game,
- gammon,
- garbled,
- get into,
- get on,
- gibe,
- gibing retort,
- give,
- give a boost,
- give a lift,
- gull,
- hasten,
- haze,
- headline,
- help up,
- hire,
- histrionize,
- hoax,
- hood,
- horn in,
- horse,
- humbug,
- hurry up,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- image,
- imitation,
- impinge,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- impostor,
- infatuate,
- infiltrate,
- inflict on,
- inflict upon,
- infringe,
- insincerity,
- insinuate,
- interfere,
- interlope,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- intrude,
- invade,
- irrupt,
- jab,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jest,
- jive,
- joke,
- jolly,
- josh,
- junk,
- junky,
- kid,
- lay,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- leg-pull,
- let on,
- let on like,
- levy,
- look big,
- make a hit,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mannered,
- mannerism,
- mantle,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- melodramatize,
- mere show,
- mete out to,
- mock,
- mount,
- muffle,
- needle,
- obduce,
- obscure,
- obtrude,
- occult,
- open,
- open a show,
- open the throttle,
- overact,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- Parthian shot,
- parting shot,
- pass off on,
- pass the buck,
- paste,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pick up speed,
- pinchbeck,
- place,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play on,
- play possum,
- playact,
- pontificate,
- pose,
- posed,
- premiere,
- prescribe for,
- present,
- press in,
- presume upon,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- preview,
- produce,
- profess,
- prunes and prisms,
- pseudo,
- public image,
- pull,
- push in,
- put,
- put across,
- put down,
- put on airs,
- put on side,
- put on steam,
- put over,
- put upon,
- put-down,
- put-up job,
- putting on airs,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quicken,
- quip,
- race,
- rag,
- rally,
- razz,
- rev,
- rib,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ritz it,
- roast,
- rude reproach,
- rush in,
- saddle with,
- scenarize,
- scoff,
- screen,
- scum,
- scurrility,
- self-styled,
- sell,
- set,
- set the stage,
- sham,
- shield,
- shift the blame,
- shift the responsibility,
- shoddy,
- short answer,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- slam,
- slap,
- slink in,
- slip in,
- slip on,
- smash in,
- sneak in,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- speed up,
- spoof,
- spread over,
- spurious,
- squeeze in,
- stage,
- stake,
- star,
- steal in,
- step on it,
- step up,
- storm in,
- strike,
- stultify,
- stylishness,
- subject to,
- succeed,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- supposititious,
- swank,
- swell,
- swell it,
- swindle,
- swipe,
- synthetic,
- take advantage of,
- take on,
- task,
- taunt,
- tax,
- tease,
- theatricalize,
- throng in,
- thrust in,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- trench,
- trespass,
- try out,
- tug the heartstrings,
- twisted,
- twit,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unnaturalness,
- unreal,
- veil,
- verbal thrust,
- wager,
- warped,
- wear,
- weight down with,
- whited sepulcher,
- work in,
- work on,
- worm in,
- yoke with
Words containing 'put on'
- Put,
- Putting,
- To put about,
- To put by,
- To put down,
- To put in,
- To put in for,
- To put off,
- To put on,
- To put out,
- To put over,
- To put this and that,
- To put through,
- To put to,
- To put to it,
- To put up,
- To put up to,
- To put up with,
- put about,
- put down,
- put in,
- put it to,
- put off,
- put out,
- put over,
- put through,
- put under,
- put up,
- put up to,
- put up with,
- put-put,
- Put case,
- Put-off,
- Put-up,
- Putting green,
- Putting stone,
- To put a case,
- To put an end to,
- To put away,
- To put back,
- To put forth,
- To put forward,
- To put in mind,
- To put in pledge,
- To put in possession,
- To put into the chair,
- To put out of court,
- To put out to grass,
- To put out to nurse,
- To put the comether on,
- To put the hand to,
- To put the kibosh on,
- To put the screw on,
- To put the screws on,
- To put to a stand,
- To put to a stress,
- To put to bed,
- To put to death,
- To put to flight,
- To put to grass,
- To put to nurse,
- To put to rights,
- To put to rout,
- To put to sea,
- To put to shame,
- To put to the blush,
- To put to the rack,
- To put to the sword,
- To put to trial,
- To put to use,
- To put together,
- To put trust in,
- To put under the screw,
- To put under the screws,
- To put up a job,
- To put up the spout,
- To put upon,
- hard put,
- off-putting,
- put across,
- put aside,
- put away,
- put back,
- put differently,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- put on airs,
- put on the line,
- put one over,
- put option,
- put out feelers,
- put paid to,
- put phut,
- put right,
- put something over,
- put straight,
- put to death,
- put to rights,
- put to sleep,
- put to work,
- put together,
- put up job,
- put up or shut up,
- put upon,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- putting iron,
- putting surface,
- putting to death,
- shot put,
- stay put,
- Put-in-Bay,
- Putting the hand under the thigh,
- To put a rod in pickle,
- To put a vessel into commission,
- To put a vessel out of commission,
- To put down one's staff,
- To put forth the hand against,
- To put on one's trumps,
- To put one out of conceit with,
- To put one's back up,
- To put one's comether on,
- To put one's foot down,
- To put stress upon,
- To put the Treasury into commission,
- To put the cart before the horse,
- To put the finishing hand to,
- To put the hand unto,
- To put the last hand to,
- To put to one's trumps,
- To put up one's staff,
- put behind bars,
- put one across,
- put one on his feet,
- put-upon,
- Put-in-Bay, OH,
- To put a spoke in one's wheel,
- To put one one's mettle,
- To put one's nose out of joint,
- To put one's nose to the grindstone,
- To put someone through one's paces,
- To put the best foot foremost,
- To put the great seal into commission,
- To be put upon one's good behavior,
- To put one's foot in one's mouth,
- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany,
- To put one's self upon the country