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Meaning of "impostrous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPOSTROUS

impostrous  [ɪmˈpɒstrəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPOSTROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Impostrous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMPOSTROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of impostrous in the English dictionary

The definition of impostrous in the dictionary is deceiving of others, esp by assuming a false identity; acting as an impostor.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPOSTROUS


ambidexterous
ˌæmbɪˈdɛkstrəs
ambidextrous
ˌæmbɪˈdɛkstrəs
anestrus
ænˈiːstrəs
colostrous
kəˈlɒstrəs
dexterous
ˈdɛkstrəs
dextrous
ˈdɛkstrəs
diestrus
daɪˈiːstrəs
disastrous
dɪˈzɑːstrəs
estrous
ˈiːstrəs
estrus
ˈɛstrəs
fostress
ˈfɒstrəs
headmistress
ˌhɛdˈmistrəs
lustrous
ˈlʌstrəs
monestrous
mɒnˈiːstrəs
monstrous
ˈmɒnstrəs
oestrous
ˈiːstrəs
oestrus
ˈiːstrəs
postmistress
ˈpəʊstmɪstrəs
proestrus
prəʊˈɛstrəs
toastmistress
ˈtəʊstˌmɪstrəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPOSTROUS

impossibilism
impossibilist
impossibilities
impossibility
impossible
impossible figure
impossibleness
impossibly
impost
imposter
imposthumate
imposthumation
imposthume
impostor
impostorous
impostumate
impostumation
impostume
imposture
imposturous

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPOSTROUS

anestrous
anoestrous
barratrous
bibliolatrous
dangerous
dartrous
elytrous
goitrous
goustrous
hagiolatrous
heliolatrous
ichthyolatrous
iconolatrous
idolatrous
litholatrous
Mariolatrous
monolatrous
nitrous
ophiolatrous
petrous
zoolatrous

Synonyms and antonyms of impostrous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «impostrous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPOSTROUS

Find out the translation of impostrous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of impostrous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «impostrous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

impostrous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impostrous
570 millions of speakers

English

impostrous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

impostrous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

impostrous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

impostrous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

impostor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

impostrous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impostrous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mencolok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

impostrous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

impostrous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

impostrous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Impostrous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

impostrous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

impostrous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भ्रामक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

impostrous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impostrous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

impostrous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

impostrous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

impostrous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

impostrous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

impostrous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

impostrous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

impostrous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of impostrous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOSTROUS»

The term «impostrous» is used very little and occupies the 157.553 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOSTROUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about impostrous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOSTROUS»

Discover the use of impostrous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to impostrous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their ...
Gediman (1985) emphasized that impostrous tendencies were complexly determined, nearly ubiquitous, and not restricted to one or the other traditional diagnostic categories. However, she did suggest a distinction between the impostor and ...
Salman Akhtar, 2000
2
Works
Of unwritten (for such is the term in use,) but much more properly of uncomposed and unenacted law (for of writiny there is, beyond comparison, more belonging to this spurious than to the genuine sort) — of this impostrous law, the fruits, the ...
Jeremy Bentham, Sir John Bowring, 1843
3
A View Of The Hard-Labour Bill: 4
Of unwritten (for such is the term in use,) but much more properly of uncomposed and unenacted law (for of writing there is, beyond comparison, more belonging to this spurious than to the genuine sort)_of this impostrous law, the fruits, the ...
‎1843
4
The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the ...
Of unwritten (for such is the term in use,) but much more properly of uncomposed and unenacted law (for of writing there is, beyond comparison, more belonging to this spurious than to the genuine sort) — of this impostrous law, the fruits, the ...
Jeremy Bentham, 1838
5
A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close ...
... languages 1—“an impostrous pretender lowledge, a man who employs what he knows to be 'y, for the purpose of deceit and of getting money.” he did this at a time when he himself, with his estimcontemporary Isokratés, were considered at ...
George Grote, 1869
6
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
... to war upon the legal profession, as a class preying upon the public through a useless and impostrous mystery. That the profession is not adequately paid for the labor and respons sibility it has to sustain. That its profits are diminishing year  ...
‎1846
7
Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction: ...
(for such is the term in use), but. much more properly of uncomposed and unenacted law (for of writing there is, beyond comparison, more belonging to this spurious than to the genuine sort), of this impostrous law, the fruits, the perpetual fruits, ...
Jeremy Bentham, 1817
8
History of Greece ...
Aristotle, following the example of his master, gave to the word sophist a definition substantially the same as that which it bears in the modern languages: 1 "an impostrous pretender to knowledge ; a man who employs what he knows to be ...
George Grote, 1853
9
The U.S. Democratic Review
... war upon the legal profession, as a class preying upon the public through a useless and impostrous mystery. That the profession is not adequately paid for ' the labor and responsibility it has to sustain. That its profits are diminishing year by ...
‎1846
10
The Greek World
... willnot be found to justify the chargesof corrupt and immoral teaching, impostrous pretence ofknowledge, &c,which the modern historianspour forth in loudchorusagainst them.5 The next important contributions to debates about the sophists ...
Anton Powell, 2002

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Impostrous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/impostrous>. Apr 2024 ».
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