phony
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Types & categories
- beguiler hypernym
- smoothie hyponym
- Tartuffe hyponym
- whited sepulcher hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Related & opposite
- mongrel derivation
- hypocrite derivation
- role player derivation
- counterfeit similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretend |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fake |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | beguiler |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | smoothie |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Tartuffe |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | whited sepulcher |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mongrel |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hypocrite |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | role player |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | counterfeit |