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imposterous

imposterous adjective: fraudulent; pretending to be someone else.

Adjective

imposterous (comparative more imposterous, superlative most imposterous)

  1. (obsolete) fraudulent; pretending to be someone else
    • Twice have I seen her with thee , twice my thoughts Were prompted by mine eye to hold thy strictness False and imposterous1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the...

Forms of imposterous

comparativemore imposterous
superlativemost imposterous

Origin of imposterous

From impostor + -ous.

Questions about imposterous

What does imposterous mean?
Imposterous means fraudulent; pretending to be someone else.
What part of speech is imposterous?
Imposterous is an adjective.

Words near imposterous in the dictionary

  1. impossiblest
  2. impossibly
  3. impost
  4. imposter
  5. imposterhood
  6. imposterous
  7. imposters
  8. impostership
  9. imposthumate
  10. imposthumated
  11. imposthumates

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