pose

Meaning

Noun

Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Verb

1. To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
2. To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
3. To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
4. To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
5. To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
6. To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
7. (obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
8. (obsolete) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
2. to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
3. To perplex or confuse (someone).

Synonyms

posture

position

attitudinize

put on airs

affect

feign

stance

show off

attitude

model

set

airs

lay

mannerism

put

show

sit

🪑

affectation

place

gesture

cause

result in

flaunt

provoke

puzzle

move

get

give rise to

wreak

impersonate

inflict

pretend

affectedness

act

nonplus

stick

gesticulate

stir

beat

stupefy

organize

make gestures

cause to take place

perplex

personate

assume

flirt with

vex

plant

🌱

strike on attitude

gravel

hold

pretense

bewilder

pass oneself off

locate

put on an act

induce

present

influence

flummox

mince

dumbfound

baffle

stage

amaze

stand

coquette with

manner

mystify

seeming

set down

settle

simper

simulation

spawn

standing

standstill

stasis

station

🚉

still

strut

style

suggest

supply

swank

talk round

put up a front

trigger off

ways

act as agent

act as go-between

asana

lead up

pose as

call oneself

assume a posture

put on an air

set oneself up

artificial position

posturize

describe oneself

give oneself out

expression

stand in a posture

stop

🛑

approach

arrange

arrangement

assign

attention

be affected

bring

bring round

collocate

constitute

create

decide

deliver

deposit

determine

dissimulation

effect

falsification

feat

fix

generate

give

incur

instal

instate

insurgence

insurgency

invest

involve

issue

lay down

layout

lay out

layover

lead

lodge

make

make-believe

masquerade

mutiny

occasion

offer

peacock

🦚

perch

persuade

play

posing

posit

post

posturing

pretence

procure

produce

prompt

propel

propose

provide

purvey

put down

put forward

range

rebellion

repose

reset

rest

revolt

riot

sedition

Pronounced as (IPA)

/poʊz/

Etymology

From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”).