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roleplayed

roleplayed is the simple past and past participle of roleplay.

Meaning of roleplay

Verb

roleplay (third-person singular simple present roleplays, present participle roleplaying, simple past and past participle roleplayed)

  1. (intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
    • To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
  2. (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
    • He likes to roleplay a vampire.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.
    • He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.

See all 5 meanings of roleplay

Forms of roleplayed

alternative formrole-played

Questions about roleplayed

What is roleplayed the simple past and past participle of?
Roleplayed is the simple past and past participle of roleplay.

Words near roleplayed in the dictionary

  1. Rolen
  2. Rolens
  3. roleo
  4. roleos
  5. roleplay
  6. roleplayed
  7. roleplayer
  8. roleplayers
  9. roleplaying
  10. roleplaying game
  11. roleplaying games

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roleplayed (page history and authors); roleplay (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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