English Dictionary

dissimulate

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈsɪmjʊˌleɪt/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 稀用

(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance. / (transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）虚偽の態度や姿勢を取ることで、本当の事実や感情などを隠す。 / （他動詞）偽りの外見や振る舞いを採用して、真実や本来の状態を隠蔽すること。

He tried to dissimulate his disappointment at the news, smiling and changing the subject quickly.

彼はその知らせに対する失望を隠そうとし、にっこり笑ってすぐに話題を変えた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance.

But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation – and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.

意味（2）

(transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance.

[P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.

意味（3）

(transitive, rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.

That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.

dissimulates （ present singular third-person ）

dissimulating （ participle present ）

dissimulated （ participle past ）

dissimulated （ past ）