Define the word put on"put on" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
put on
adj : 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" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious,
fictive, pretended, sham]
v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He
put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess
donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the
stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, get into, don, assume]
2: add to something existing; "She put on a sun room"
3: put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea,
please!"
4: carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid
effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight
game" [syn: turn in]
5: add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip"
6: prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for
execution or performance; "mount a theater production";
"mount an attack"; "mount a play" [syn: mount]
7: apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the
house"; "Put on make-up!" [syn: apply]
8: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang,
befool, cod, fool, take in, put one over, put one across]
9: increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she
stopped exercising" [syn: gain] [ant: reduce]
"put on" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
385 Moby Thesaurus words for "put on":
Parthian shot, accelerate, act, act a part, administer, affect,
affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces,
apocryphal, apply, apply to, artificial, artificiality, assume,
assumed, back answer, banter, barge in, bastard, be a gas,
be a hit, befool, bestow, bet, bill, blanket, block, bluff, bogus,
bomb, break in, break in upon, brummagem, burden with, burst in,
butt in, canopy, caustic remark, chaff, change, charge, charge in,
cheat, clinquant, cloak, clothe, cloud, colorable, colored,
come between, comeback, cope, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover,
cover up, cowl, crack, crack on, crash, crash in, crash the gates,
creep in, crowd in, curtain, cut, cut in, cutting remark, deceit,
deceive, deception, demand, dig, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate,
distorted, do a bit, don, dose, dose with, dramatize, draw on,
dress in, dressed up, dummy, dump, dupe, eclipse, edge in,
elbow in, embellished, embroidered, encroach, enforce upon, engage,
enjoin, entrench, ersatz, exact, facade, face, factitious, fail,
fake, faked, fakement, false, false front, false show, falsified,
fasten upon, feature, feign, feigned, feigned belief, fictitious,
fictive, film, fleer, flop, flout, foist in, foist on, foolery,
force, force upon, forgery, four-flush, frame-up, fraud,
freight with, front, gain ground, gamble, game, gammon, garbled,
get into, get on, gibe, gibing retort, give, give a boost,
give a lift, gull, hasten, haze, headline, help up, hire,
histrionize, hoax, hood, horn in, horse, humbug, hurry up,
hypocrisy, hypocritical, illegitimate, image, imitation, impinge,
impose, impose on, impose upon, impostor, infatuate, infiltrate,
inflict on, inflict upon, infringe, insincerity, insinuate,
interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade,
irrupt, jab, jape, jeer, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, junk,
junky, kid, lay, lay on, lay over, leg-pull, let on, let on like,
levy, look big, make a hit, make a pretense, make as if,
make believe, make like, make out like, make-believe, man-made,
mannered, mannerism, mantle, mask, masquerade, melodramatize,
mere show, mete out to, mock, mount, muffle, needle, obduce,
obscure, obtrude, occult, open, open a show, open the throttle,
overact, overlay, overspread, parting shot, pass off on,
pass the buck, paste, perverted, phony, pick up speed, pinchbeck,
place, play, play a part, play a scene, play on, play possum,
playact, pontificate, pose, posed, premiere, prescribe for,
present, press in, presume upon, pretend, pretended, pretense,
pretension, preview, produce, profess, prunes and prisms, pseudo,
public image, pull, push in, put, put across, put down,
put on airs, put on side, put on steam, put over, put upon,
put-down, put-up job, putting on airs, quasi, queer, quicken, quip,
race, rag, rally, razz, rev, rib, ride, rip-off, ritz it, roast,
rude reproach, rush in, saddle with, scenarize, scoff, screen,
scum, scurrility, self-styled, sell, set, set the stage, sham,
shield, shift the blame, shift the responsibility, shoddy,
short answer, show, simulacrum, simulate, simulated, slam, slap,
slink in, slip in, slip on, smash in, sneak in, so-called,
soi-disant, speed up, spoof, spread over, spurious, squeeze in,
stage, stake, star, steal in, step on it, step up, storm in,
strike, stultify, stylishness, subject to, succeed, superimpose,
superpose, supposititious, swank, swell, swell it, swindle, swipe,
synthetic, take advantage of, take on, task, taunt, tax, tease,
theatricalize, throng in, thrust in, tin, tinsel, titivated,
trench, trespass, try out, tug the heartstrings, twisted, twit,
unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unnaturalness, unreal, veil,
verbal thrust, wager, warped, wear, weight down with,
whited sepulcher, work in, work on, worm in, yoke with
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