Definition for Facade:

• Front of a building; especially, the main front.

Synonyms for Facade:

• adj.

  •pretentious (adjective)
  • deceitful,
  • stiff,
  • mock,
  • stagy,
  • ostentatious,
  • mannered,
  • unnatural,
  • la-di-da,
  • Masquerading,
  • showy,
  • synthetic,
  • overdone,
  • stilted,
  • artificial,
  • affected,
  • histrionic,
  • fraudulent,
  • posing,
  • ersatz,
  • forged,
  • Impersonating,
  • theatrical,
  • pretentious,
  • forced,
  • studied,
  • false,
  • bogus.

• n.

  •
  • deception,
  • guile,
  • duplicity,
  • dishonesty,
  • corruption,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • foul play,
  • misconduct.
  •
  • cornerstone,
  • bay,
  • ceiling,
  • body,
  • catacombs,
  • balcony,
  • beading,
  • brickwork,
  • alcove,
  • addition.
  •affectation (noun)
  • pre tension,
  • putting airs,
  • putting air,
  • in sincerity,
  • pre tensions,
  • in sincerities,
  • going hollywoods,
  • pre-tensions,
  • pre-tension,
  • in-sincerity,
  • puton,
  • putting on air,
  • showing offs,
  • in-sincerities.
  •appearance (noun)
  • Visions,
  • seemings,
  • Illusions,
  • seeming.
  •appearance, often deceptive (noun)
  • face,
  • show,
  • look,
  • frontage,
  • beard,
  • put-on,
  • phony,
  • false colors.
  •artifact (noun)
  • frontal,
  • facade.
  •blind (noun)
  • blindfolds,
  • blinkers,
  • blinker,
  • blindfold.
  •bluff (noun)
  • jivings,
  • pre text,
  • pre texts,
  • pre-text,
  • pre-texts,
  • braggings.
  •cloak (noun)
  • Manteaus.
  •color (noun)
  • false show.
  •cover (noun)
  • sheet,
  • varnish,
  • tegument,
  • tarp,
  • fig leaf,
  • teguments,
  • tent,
  • TARPS.
  •decoy (noun)
  • drawing card,
  • shills,
  • shill,
  • nark,
  • blow off,
  • sitting duck,
  • Seducement,
  • narks,
  • chicane,
  • chicanes,
  • comeon,
  • ensnarement.
  •disguise (noun)
  • co-loring,
  • dis guises,
  • dis simulations,
  • get-ups,
  • get ups,
  • fakings,
  • dis simulation,
  • dis-simulations,
  • dis guise,
  • dissimulations,
  • co loring,
  • co lorings,
  • makebelieve,
  • co-lorings,
  • dis-simulation,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis-guises.
  •exterior (noun)
  • exteriorities,
  • super strata,
  • super-stratum,
  • super-strata,
  • super stratums,
  • super-stratums,
  • super stratum,
  • superstratums,
  • Superstrata.
  •false face (noun)
  • false-face.
  •front (noun)
  • front lines,
  • front line.
  •gloss (noun)
  • slicknesses,
  • silkinesses,
  • glossinesses.
  •outside (noun)
  • top-side,
  • out sides,
  • top sides,
  • out-side,
  • top-sides,
  • out side,
  • out-doors,
  • out-sides,
  • out doors,
  • withouts.
  •pose (noun)
  • positures,
  • attitudinizings.
  •pretense (noun)
  • posings,
  • mis representations,
  • dumb acts,
  • pre tenses,
  • mis statements,
  • doubledealing,
  • pre-tense,
  • pre tense,
  • feignings,
  • mis representation,
  • pre-tenses,
  • mis-statements,
  • fakeries,
  • mis-representation,
  • mis statement,
  • schticks.
  •pretension (noun)
  • charade,
  • deceit,
  • falseness,
  • ostentation,
  • mannerism,
  • stage,
  • device,
  • impersonation,
  • counterfeit,
  • imposture,
  • air,
  • artificiality,
  • pretension,
  • claim,
  • imitation,
  • forgery,
  • gimmick.
  •semblance (noun)
  • re-semblance,
  • re semblances,
  • re semblance.
  •sham (noun)
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • pre tends,
  • pre tend,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • pre-tends,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pseudi,
  • hypo criticalness.
  •surface (noun)
  • sur-faces.
  •veil (noun)
  • veilings.
  •wall (noun)
  • re-striction,
  • re-strictions,
  • re strictions,
  • re striction.
  •window dressing (noun)
  • store window display,
  • window display,
  • window-dressing,
  • showmanship.

• Other synonyms:

  •exterior
  • surface.

Paraphrases for Facade:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    front.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    face, Glazing, interface.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    veneer, elevation, appearance, guise.

Antonyms for Facade:

• n.

  • appearance, often deceptive
    reality, truth, personality, character.
  • Other antonyms:
    genuineness, naivete, directness, artlessness.

Facade Sentence Examples:

• The facade of the building to - day remains much as it was a century ago.

• When they had no more enemies before them, they riddled the facade of the Mule - Blanche with bullets.

Homophones for Facade:

• factoid, fewest, fagged, five-sided, faced, fixate, fag out, fogged, focussed, feisty, fused, fugacity, fascist, fagot, focused, fucoid, fish stew, faucet, fossa cat, fast, foist, fixity, faceted, fixed, feist, fig out, fascista, fazed, fuzzed, fusty, fact, feast, fast dye, fast day, fight, fiesta, fauvist, faggot, facet, fist, feast day, faust.

Hypernym for Facade:

• n.

  • artifact
    frontispiece.

Hyponym for Facade:

• n.

  • artifact
    front.