Definition of Dissimulate

1. Verb. Hide (feelings) from other people.

Generic synonyms: Disguise, Mask
Derivative terms: Dissimulation, Dissimulative

Definition of Dissimulate

1. a. Feigning; simulating; pretending.

2. v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Definition of Dissimulate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dissimulate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimulate

dissimilar
dissimilarities
dissimilarity
dissimilarly
dissimilarness
dissimilars
dissimilate
dissimilated
dissimilates
dissimilating
dissimilation
dissimilations
dissimilatory
dissimilitude
dissimilitudes
dissimulate (current term)
dissimulated
dissimulates
dissimulating
dissimulatingly
dissimulation
dissimulations
dissimulative
dissimulator
dissimulators
dissimulour
dissing
dissipable
dissipate
dissipated

Literary usage of Dissimulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in by Edward Latham (1906)
"regnare (Who knows not how to dissimulate, knows not how to reign). Louis XI. (1423-83)—referring to his ... (To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"[dissimulate occurs in Richardson's Dictionary, ... to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty, to dissimulate for a time, ..."

3. John Ruskin: A Sketch of His Life, His Work, and His Opinions with Personal by Marion Harry Spielmann, John Ruskin (1900)
"He can never have tried to dissimulate." How true this is will be felt by all Ruskin's acquaintance. Not only could he never have tried to dissimulate, ..."

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