Synonyms for imposition
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Noun
1. Imposture — A trick or deception put or laid on others
imposture, fraud, cheating, cheat, delusion, deception, deceit, trickery, racket, racquet UK, scam, swindle, trick, cozenage, artifice, sham, humbug, hocus-pocus, grift slang US
2. Tax — that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined
tax, burden, charge, charre UK, levy, exaction, impost, demand, injunction, enjoinder
3. Infliction — the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like
infliction, obtrusion, imposure rare
Other
encroachment, presumption, placing, impot slang dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- n. 2
That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- n. 3
A trick or deception put or laid on others.
Forms
- Plural
- impositions → impostures, frauds, cheatings, cheats…
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A deceit or deception may be designed merely to gain some end of one's own, with no intent of harming another; an imposition, to take some small advantage of another, or simply to make another ridiculous.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- imposture To reason and be mistaken, is that imposture?
- cozenage They say this town is full of cozenage.
- tax Your contribution to the school is tax-deductible.
- burden The boy was fed up with being treated as a burden.
- presumption There is a strong presumption against its truth.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| imposition | falling | |
| imposture | steady | |
| cozenage | steady | |
| tax | falling | |
| burden | steady | |
| presumption | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- tax1
- 4 letters
- scam1, levy2, sham1
- 5 letters
- trick1, fraud1, cheat1, grift, impot
- 6 letters
- charge1, demand2, burden2, racket2, deceit2, humbug2, impost, charre
- 7 letters
- placing2, racquet2, swindle2
- 8 letters
- cheating2, delusion3, trickery3, artifice3, exaction3, cozenage, imposure
- 9 letters
- deception3, imposture, enjoinder, obtrusion
- 10 letters
- injunction3, infliction3
- 11 letters
- presumption3
- 12 letters
- encroachment3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (levy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- imposition
- Italiano
- imposizione
- Català
- imposició