poser

1. 1.

   a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not

   Synonymsposeur

   Broaderexhibitionist

   Narrowerposeuse
2. 2.

   a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

   “the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos”

   Synonymsmodel

   Broaderassistant

   Narrowerartist's modeldressmaker's modelphotographer's model
3. 3.

   a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

   Synonymsstumpertoughiesticker

   Broaderproblem

Other forms of poser

plural

posers·

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 poser

What does poser mean?

poser means "a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poser?

poser has 2 syllables: po-ser. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊzɚ/.

What is another word for poser?

Close synonyms include poseur, model, stumper, toughie, sticker. 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 poser a common word?

poser is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with poser?

2 words rhyme with poser. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.