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playactor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun playactor has 1 sense
- playactor(n = noun.person) barnstormer, play-actor, trouper - an actor who travels around the country presenting plays; Array is a kind of actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian
Derived form verb playact1
THESAURUS
playactor
Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Roscius, actor, actress, affecter, antagonist, bad guy, bamboozler, barnstormer, befuddler, beguiler, character, character actor, character man, character woman, charmer, child actor, counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, dramatizer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, fake, faker, feeder, foil, fooler, forger, fraud, gay deceiver, heavy, histrio, histrion, hoaxer, hollow man, hypnotizer, impersonator, ingenue, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, juvenile, kidder, leg-puller, man of straw, mannerist, matinee idol, mesmerizer, mime, mimer, mimic, misleader, monologist, mummer, pantomime, pantomimist, paper tiger, performer, phony, plagiarist, plagiarizer, player, practical joker, pretender, protean actor, ragger, reciter, role-player, seducer, soubrette, spoofer, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straw man, stroller, strolling player, tease, teaser, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain
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