Definition for Impostor:

• One who assumes a false character or passes himself off for some one else; swindler. Hence impostrous a. [ French]

Synonyms for Impostor:

• n.

  •
  • liar,
  • crook,
  • CONMAN,
  • politician,
  • fixer,
  • brown-nose,
  • wheeler dealer.
  •
  • true,
  • charlatan,
  • mountebank.
  •cheat (noun)
  • de coys,
  • double-dealers,
  • de-coy,
  • de coy,
  • doubledealer,
  • double dealers,
  • doublecrosser,
  • de-coys,
  • double crosser,
  • confidence operators,
  • connivers,
  • doubledealers.
  •faker (noun)
  • coiners,
  • coiner.
  •fraud (noun)
  • four flusher,
  • horse traders,
  • fourflushers,
  • play actors,
  • four-flushers,
  • four flushers.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • dissembler,
  • two-timer,
  • smoothie,
  • backsliders,
  • casuist,
  • Pharisees,
  • casuists,
  • hypocrite,
  • backslider,
  • tartuffe,
  • two-face,
  • smoothies,
  • wolf in sheep's clothing,
  • Attitudinizer,
  • Dissimulator,
  • pharisee,
  • sophists,
  • sophist,
  • dissemblers,
  • lip server,
  • playactor.
  •person pretending to be something else (noun)
  • scorner,
  • shyster,
  • impersonator,
  • mimic,
  • empiric,
  • imitator,
  • pseudo,
  • bluffer,
  • deceiver,
  • phony,
  • actor,
  • pettifogger,
  • con artist,
  • beguiler.
  •pretender (noun)
  • study at quack.
  •pseud (noun)
  • pseud.
  •quack (noun)
  • quacksalvers,
  • puton,
  • pseudi,
  • flimflammers,
  • bunco artists,
  • bunco artist.
  •role player (noun)
  • role player.
  •sham (noun)
  • pre-tends,
  • pre-text,
  • pre-texts,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • pre tenses,
  • hypo criticalnesses,
  • pre texts,
  • pre tend,
  • pre tense,
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pre-tense,
  • pre text,
  • fakeries,
  • pre tends.
  •swindler (noun)
  • confidence artists,
  • confidence artist.
  •traitor (noun)
  • backstabbers,
  • back-stabbers,
  • whistle-blowers,
  • treasonists,
  • whistle blowers,
  • whistleblowers,
  • whistle blower,
  • back stabber,
  • back stabbers.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • forger,
  • plagiarist,
  • rascal,
  • counterfeiter,
  • poser.
  •
  • parrot.
  •charlatan
  • mocker.
  •fake
  • fake.
  •phony
  • stuffed shirt.
  •pretender
  • trifler.

Paraphrases for Impostor:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    imposter.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    imposter.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    faker, fraud.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fake, phoney, fraudster.

Impostor Sentence Examples:

• Were he an impostor, replied the old man, he would have insisted by word of mouth that he is king.

• There were people at the Hospital who thought them highly suspicious - people who warned me that I might find an impostor in my place.