disguised
verbadjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//dɪsˈɡaɪzd//
- United Kingdom//dɪzˈɡaɪzd//
- United States//dɪsˈɡaɪzd//
- United States//dɪˈskaɪzd//
Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
verb
- 1
Also a form of disguisesimple past and past participle of disguise
adjective
- 1
Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
- 2
Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
- 3
obsoleteAltered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
- 4
obsoleteServing as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
under a disguised name
- 5
obsoleteConcealed, hidden, out of sight.
- 6
obsoleteActing inappropriately, badly behaved.
Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]
And thus the loselles stryves, And lewdely sayes by Chryst Agaynst the sely preest. […] They mought be better advysed Then to be so dysgysed.
- 7
obsoleteDrunk.
He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].
The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine.
Forms
- comparative
- more disguised
- superlative
- most disguised
disguised · Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
disgust · To cause an intense dislike for something.disgusted · Filled with disgust.disgusting · Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.