Definition of
Hypocrite
- (noun, person) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
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Synonyms of Hypocrite
Alternate forms of Hypocrite
Hyponyms: charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, tartufe, tartuffe, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
Hypernyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Origin of the word Hypocrite
- early 13c., from O.Fr. ypocrite (Mod.Fr. hypocrite), from Church L. hypocrita, from Gk. hypokrites "stage actor, pretender, dissembler," from hypokrinesthai (see hypocrisy). more
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