Synonyms for Posing:

adj.
• pretentious
- Impersonating
- Masquerading
- affected
- artificial
- bogus
- counterfeit
- deceitful
- ersatz
- facade
- fake
- false
- forced
- forged
- fraudulent
- histrionic
- imitation
- imposture
- la-di-da
- mannered
- mock
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pretentious
- showy
- stagy
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- synthetic
- theatrical
- unnatural
n.
• act
- posing
• acting
- Imitating
- Theatricals
- characterizations
- hamming
- pantomimes
- playings
- posturings
- seemings
- stagecraft
- stooging
v.
• pretending
- Claiming
- Counterfeiting
- Deceiving
- Defrauding
- Disguising
- affecting
- covering
- falsifying
- forging
- pretending
- showing
- staging
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• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

Bluffing
faking

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Independent
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  acting, adducing, advancing, agreeing, appearing, arguing, arriving, ask, asking, asserting, assuming, bearing, becoming, being, believing, betting, building, calling, coming, composing, confronting, contributing, conveying, damaging, depicting, designing, detailing, devising, directing, dropping, emerging, emphasizing, encompassing, erecting, existing, facing, filing, filling, forging, fostering, founding, framing, gambling, giving, hence, highlighting, identifying, imposing, incurring, installing, issuing, landing, laying, leading, listing, lodging, looking, making, marking, meaning, moving, naming, orienting, passing, performing, pinning, pitting, planting, portraying, posting, pretending, proceeding, projecting, prompting, pushing, putting, questioning, reflecting, rendering, representative, resulting, rotating, running, seeking, setting, shaping, shifting, showing, spend, spending, standing, suffering, supplying, surrounding, switching, taking, transmitting, voting, weighing, where, wounding, yielding, Addressing, Adjourning, Advocating, Affixing, Affording, Amounting, Appointing, Arising, Arousing, Articulating, Attaching, Channelling, Claiming, Delineating, Delivering, Describing, Discussing, Displaying, Doing, Elaborating, Emanating, Embodying, Entailing, Establishing, Exerting, Exhibiting, Experiencing, Explaining, Exposing, Expressing, Fanning, Fielding, Fleshing, Forming, Formulating, Generating, Having, Illustrating, Implying, Incorporating, Indicating, Inflicting, Initiating, Inserting, Inspecting, Introducing, Involving, Lifting, Occurring, Outlining, Perching, Placing, Requiring, Resembling, Resting, Tabling, Underpinning, Waiving, Totalling, profiling, Comprising, Considering, Consisting, Constituting, Containing, Contemplating, Creating, Possessing, Presenting, Proposing, Providing, Stating, Subjecting, Submitting, Suggesting, Supposing, Suspecting, documenting, itemizing, summarizing, demonstrating, representing, constitutes, creates, featuring, sponsoring, harbouring, killing, comprizing.
Other Related
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  bringing, causing, leaving, offering, raising, Masquerading, Nominating, showcasing.

What are the hypernyms for Posing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
modeling, posturing, staging, Exhibiting, Presenting, showing off, striking a pose, standing in line, Having a stance, Making a gesture, Posing for a photograph, Positioning oneself, Presenting an attitude, Striking a gesture.

What are the hyponyms for Posing?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for posing (as nouns)
- act
  motion, movement, move, motility.

What are the opposite words for posing?

Antonyms for the word "posing" include words such as avoiding, evading, ignoring, neglecting, and shirking. These words suggest an active defiance or rejection of the idea of posing, instead emphasizing a deliberate refusal to participate in any kind of performance, display, or presentation. They suggest an attitude of independence, spontaneity, or even rebellion, as opposed to the more formal or controlled connotations associated with posing. An antonym for "posing" might also be "being oneself" or "acting naturally," indicating a preference for authenticity and honesty rather than posturing or artificiality.

What are the antonyms for Posing?

adj.
• noun
- honest
- truthful
- veracious

Usage examples for Posing

Frank posing in his sports jetabout against a blue Pacific background.

"The Love of Frank Nineteen"

David Carpenter Knight

She does not enter at once, but stands posing-presumably she desires to attract attention, and she is worthy of it.

"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"

Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

He describes the German Emperor as a broken man and all for peace, the Crown Prince posing as the head of the military party but being unpopular.

"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"

Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Posing

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Fanny Brice
I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

Jeremy Bulloch
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Adrian Edmondson
They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

Jim Goad
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

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