facade

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fa=cade

THESAURUS

facade

acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, anteriority, apology, apparent character, appearance, appearances, artificiality, attitudinizing, blind, bluff, bluffing, bold front, border, brave face, brave front, cheating, circumference, cloak, color, coloring, cortex, cover, cover story, cover-up, covering, crust, deception, delusion, device, disguise, display, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, envelope, epidermis, excuse, exterior, exteriors, external, external appearance, externals, face, facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigned belief, feigning, feint, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, fringe, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, gaudiness, gilt, gloss, guise, handle, head, heading, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, image, imposture, insincerity, integument, lame excuse, lap, lineaments, locus standi, mannerism, mask, masquerade, mere externals, mere show, meretriciousness, obverse, ostensible motive, ostent, ostentation, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outside, outward appearance, outward show, periphery, playacting, poor excuse, pose, posing, posture, preface, prefix, pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, protestation, prunes and prisms, public image, public motive, put-off, put-on, putting on airs, refuge, representation, rind, screen, seeming, semblance, sham, shell, show, simulacrum, simulation, skin, smoke screen, speciousness, stalking-horse, stratagem, stylishness, subterfuge, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surface, surface appearance, surface show, top, trick, unnaturalness, vain show, varnish, veil, veneer, window dressing

ROGET THESAURUS

facade

Front

N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.