Synonyms for pose
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Stick — to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions
stick, puzzle, get, perplex, bewilder, embarrass, non-plus, confuse, beat, confound, mystify, amaze, vex, gravel, baffle, stupefy, flummox, dumbfound
4. Impersonate
Other
present, attitude, attitudinize UK US, attitudinise UK
Noun
1. Affectation
2. Common cold — common cold, head cold; catarrh
Definitions
- v. 1
to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
- v. 2
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
To pose a model for a picture.
- n. 1
Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
- n. 2
Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
Related words
- Word family
- posedown poser
- Phrases
- cobra pose composite pose corpse pose crow pose vacuum pose
Choose the right word
A pose is a position studied for artistic effect, or considered with reference to such effect; the unconscious posture of a spectator or listener may be an admirable pose from an artist's standpoint.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- amaze Your creativity never ceases to amaze me.
- vex Vex not too far the lion, chained though he be.
- baffle Ziri's disappearance continues to baffle everybody.
By length
- 3 letters
- get1, put1, set1, sit1, lay1, vex1
- 4 letters
- beat1, cold1, fake1, acre2, airs1
- 5 letters
- place1, model2, stick1, amaze2, asana
- 6 letters
- puzzle2, gravel2, baffle2
- 7 letters
- present2, confuse2, posture2, perplex2, mystify3, stupefy, flummox2
- 8 letters
- position3, attitude3, confound2, bewilder3
- 9 letters
- embarrass3, mannerism4, dumbfound2, personate
- 11 letters
- impersonate4, affectation4
- 12 letters
- attitudinize, attitudinise, affectedness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (acre2 = 2 syllables).