personate

personate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
2. transitive verb. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
3. transitive verb. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
4. transitive verb. To personify; to typify; to describe.
5. intransitive verb. To play or assume a character.
6. adjective. Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
7. verb. attribute human qualities to something

   "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"

   Synonyms: personify

8. verb. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

   "She posed as the Czar's daughter"

   Synonyms: impersonate, pose

Synonyms

personify, impersonate, pose

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in personate:

esperanto

Common word forms

personated, personates, personately, personating

Words from these letters

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