Impostor

Noun

 * 1) Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

Synonyms

 * impersonator
 * See also Thesaurus:deceiver

Adjectives for Impostor
privileged; ant; vile; crafty; latent; artistic; ignor-wretched.

Thesaurus
ape, beguiler, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, clinquant, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler, dissimulator, dummy, echo, echoer, echoist, fake, fakement, faker, flimflam man, forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, hoax, humbug, hypocrite, imitation, imitator, impersonator, imposter, junk, malingerer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, paste, pettifogger, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, put-on, put-up job, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, shark, sheep, shoddy, shyster, simulacrum, simulator, swindle, swindler, tinsel, trickster, whited sepulcher

Alternative forms

 * imposter

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: huijari, toiseksi tekeytyjä
 * French: imposteur, impostrice
 * German: ,


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * 1) impostor