dissembler

Other forms of dissembler

plural

dissemblers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dissembler

What does dissembler mean?

dissembler means "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".

How many syllables are in dissembler?

dissembler has 3 syllables and divides as dis-sem-bler under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dissembler?

Close synonyms include hypocrite, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dissembler a common word?

dissembler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.