disguised en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /dɪˈskaɪzd/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (General-American)
- /dɪzˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
- Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
- (of things) Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
- (obsolete, of dress) Altered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
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(obsolete, of dress, qualifier:names, usually) Serving as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
under a disguised name
- (obsolete) Concealed, hidden, out of sight.
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(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:
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most disguised | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more disguised | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
disguisedness · disguisedly · ill-disguised · undisguisedness · undisguised
Translations (1)
es de incógnito (Translations)