semblance

Found in thesaurus: visual aspect, appearance, ikon, image, icon, picture

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semblance
n. image, likeness; external appearance, look; impression, illusion

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semblance

Noun
1. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
(synonym) gloss, color, colour
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect
(hyponym) color of law, colour of law
2. an erroneous mental representation
(synonym) illusion
(hypernym) appearance
(hyponym) apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, shadow
3. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
(synonym) likeness
(hypernym) picture, image, icon, ikon
(hyponym) Identikit, Identikit picture


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semblance
n. podoba

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semblance
Rzecz. pozór

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Semblance
(a.)
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
  
 
(a.)
Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
  

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