pose
noun
1. affected manners intended to impress others
Similar word(s): airs
Definition categories: attribute, affectedness
2. a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
Definition categories: attribute, attitude, position, posture
3. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Similar word(s): affectation, affectedness, mannerism
Definition categories: act, feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation
Sentences with pose as a noun:
- Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
verb
1. introduce
- This poses an interesting question
Similar word(s): present
Definition categories: stative, be, comprise, constitute, represent
2. assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
Similar word(s): model, posture, sit
Definition categories: perception, display, exhibit, expose
3. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
- She posed as the Czar's daughter
Similar word(s): impersonate, personate
Definition categories: communication, betray, deceive
4. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
Similar word(s): posture
Definition categories: social, acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport
5. put into a certain place or abstract location
Similar word(s): lay, place, position, put, set
Definition categories: contact, displace, move
6. be a mystery or bewildering to
Similar word(s): amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Definition categories: cognition, bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
Sentences with pose as a verb:
- To pose a model for a picture.