Word Meanings - PRETEXT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise. They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness. L'Estrange. With how much or how little

Additional info about word: PRETEXT

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise. They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness. L'Estrange. With how much or how little pretext of reason. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Pretense; excuse; semblance; disguise; appearance. See Pretense. (more info) of praetexere to weave before, allege as an excuse; prae before +

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETEXT)

• Mask
• Pretext
• screen
• pretence
• ruse
• cover
• hypocrisy
• Pretence
• Excuse
• pretext
• fabrication
• simulation
• cloak
• mask
• color
• show
• garb
• plea
• assumption
• make believe
• outside show
• pretension
• substitute
• Contrivance
• expedient
• motive
• change
• evasion
• device
• artifice
• resource
• transference
• Show
• Appearance
• exhibition
• demonstration
• parade
• pomp
• semblance
• likeness
• profession
• illusion
• Subterfuge
• Shift
• excuse
• dodge
• underhandedness
• sophistry

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRETEXT)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to PRETEXT)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .