pose

pose is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
2. noun. A cold in the head; catarrh.
3. transitive verb. The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
4. transitive verb. To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
5. intransitive verb. To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
6. transitive verb. To interrogate; to question.
7. transitive verb. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
8. noun. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

   Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism

9. noun. affected manners intended to impress others

   "don't put on airs with me"

   Synonyms: airs

10. noun. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
11. verb. be a mystery or bewildering to

    "This beats me!"

    "Got me--I don't know the answer!"

    Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle

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

    "She posed as the Czar's daughter"

    Synonyms: impersonate, personate

13. verb. put into a certain place or abstract location

    "Put your things here"

    "Set the tray down"

    Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set

14. verb. assume a posture as for artistic purposes

    "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

    Synonyms: model, posture, sit

15. verb. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

    "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"

    "She postured and made a total fool of herself"

    Synonyms: posture

16. verb. introduce

    "This poses an interesting question"

    Synonyms: present

Synonyms

affectation, affectedness, mannerism, airs, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex, impersonate, personate, lay, place, position

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pose:

epos, esop, opes, peso, sope

Common word forms

posed, poser, poses, posing, poseable, posement

Words from these letters

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