semblant
/ˈsɛmblənt/
semblant noun: one's outward appearance.
Noun
semblant (plural semblants)
- One's outward appearance.
- But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Adjective
semblant (comparative more semblant, superlative most semblant)
- Like; resembling.
- their eyes survey
The semblant shade1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Epistle during the Queen's Picture”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
- their eyes survey
- Seeming, rather than real; apparent.
- [C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
Forms of semblant
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | semblants |
| alternative form (obsolete) | semblaunt |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more semblant |
| superlative | most semblant |
Origin of semblant
Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.
Words formed from semblant
Questions about semblant
- What does semblant mean?
- Semblant means one's outward appearance.
- What part of speech is semblant?
- Semblant can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce semblant?
- Semblant is pronounced /ˈsɛmblənt/.
- What is the plural of semblant?
- The plural of semblant is semblants.
Words near semblant in the dictionary
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