put on

1. 1.

   adopted in order to deceive

   “an assumed name”

   “an assumed cheerfulness”

   “a fictitious address”

   “fictive sympathy”

   “a pretended interest”

   “a put-on childish voice”

   “sham modesty”

   Synonymsassumedfalsefictitiousfictivepretendedsham

   Similarcounterfeit

Questions about put on

What does put on mean?

put on means "put clothing on one's body". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for put on?

Close synonyms include wear, get into, don, assume, turn in. 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 put on a common word?

put on is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.