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disguised en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈskaɪzd/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (General-American)
  • /dɪzˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
  2. (of things) Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
  3. (obsolete, of dress) Altered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
  4. (obsolete, of dress, qualifier:names, usually) Serving as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
    • under a disguised name
  5. (obsolete) Concealed, hidden, out of sight.
  6. (obsolete) Acting inappropriately, badly behaved.
    • And thus the loselles stryves, And lewdely sayes by Chryst Agaynst the sely preest. […] They mought be better advysed Then to be so dysgysed. 1521–1522, John Skelton, Collyn Clout; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 261, lines 574–576, 579–580:
    • Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […] c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
  7. (broadly, obsolete, slang) Drunk.
    • The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine. c. 1600, Thomas Deloney, Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets:
    • He was never known to be disguised with liquor […]. 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most disguised Degree=Sup lexicographic
more disguised Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

disguisedness · disguisedly · ill-disguised · undisguisedness · undisguised

Translations (1)

es de incógnito (Translations)

disguised en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈskaɪzd/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (General-American)
  • /dɪzˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of disguise
    form of disguise