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poseur

/pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/

poseur noun: one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

Noun

poseur (plural poseurs)

  1. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
    • He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
    • She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
    Synonyms:
    poser, attitudinizer

poseur meaning in Tamil and Urdu

poseur in Tamil

பாசாங்குக்காரர்

poseur in Urdu

دکھاوٹی, ریا کار, اوپری

Examples of poseur in a sentence

  • But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.1884, Vernon Lee (pseudonym; Violet Paget), The Countess of Albany, published 1910, page 67:
  • I am a poseur and I don't care / I like to make people stare1978, Poly Styrene, “I Am a Poseur”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray Spex:

Synonyms of poseur

Forms of poseur

pluralposeurs

Origin of poseur

Borrowed from French poseur.

Words formed from poseur

Words that rhyme with poseur

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about poseur

What does poseur mean?
Poseur means one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
What is poseur in Tamil?
Poseur in Tamil is பாசாங்குக்காரர். See Poseur meaning in Tamil.
How do you use poseur in a sentence?
But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.
What part of speech is poseur?
Poseur is a noun.
How do you pronounce poseur?
Poseur is pronounced /pəʊˈzʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of poseur?
The plural of poseur is poseurs.

Words near poseur in the dictionary

  1. posest
  2. poset
  3. posetal
  4. poseth
  5. posets
  6. poseur
  7. poseurish
  8. poseurs
  9. poseuse
  10. poseuses
  11. posey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poseur (page history and authors); poseur (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poseur (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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