About The Word Semblance
Learn about the word Semblance to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Semblance definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Semblance
| Semblance Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Semblance?
[n] picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
[n] outward or token appearance or form; "he tried to give his actions a semblance of authenticity"; "the situation soon took on a different color" [n] an erroneous mental representation Synonyms | Synonyms for Semblance: color | colour | illusion | likeness Related Terms | Find terms related to Semblance: See Also | apparition | appearance | appearance | camouflage | color of law | colour of law | disguise | face value | guise | icon | Identikit | Identikit picture | ikon | image | irradiation | phantom | phantom limb | picture | portrait | portrayal | pretence | pretense | pretext | shadow | simulacrum | verisimilitude | visual aspect Semblance In Webster's Dictionary \Sem"blance\, n. [F. See {Semblable}, a.]
1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were.
--Fairfax.
2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as,
the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
Only semblances or imitations of shells. --Woodward.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Typewriter ‐ hand-operated character printer for printing written messages…
- Ankylotic ‐ relating to or characteristic of the abnormality…
- Vittariaceae ‐ one of a number of families into which Polypodiaceae has been…
- Long-suffering ‐ patient endurance of pain or unhappiness [adj] patiently enduring…
- Nearsighted ‐ unable to see distant…
- Forbearing ‐ showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under…
- Patrimonial ‐ inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal…
- Go-getter ‐ someone whose career…
- Bill of attainder ‐ a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony…
- Genus epipactis ‐ genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish…