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dissimulator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dis-sim-u-la-tor
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who dissimulates.

Etymology

From Latin dissimulātor, from dissimulāre (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to dissimulate + -or.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

dissimulators (plural)

Derived Forms

dissimulatress

Synonyms

hypocrite dissembler phony phoney pretender

Questions

What does dissimulator mean?
One who dissimulates.
Where does dissimulator come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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