Antonyms for mask
mæsk, mɑskmask

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1. mask

   Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings, and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare IMMERSE; PALLIATE.

   Antonyms:
   admit, advertise, avow, betray, confess, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, exhibit, exhume, expose, lay bare, lay open, make known, reveal, manifest, promulgate, publish, raise, show, tell, uncover, unmask, unveil

   Synonyms:
   bury, cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, overwhelm, screen, secrete, suppress, veil

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1. masknoun

   Antonyms:
   truth, nakedness, detection, exposure, unmasking, verity, openness, candor

   Synonyms:
   pretext, screen, pretence, ruse, cover, hypocrisy

2. maskverb

   Antonyms:
   expose, unmask, detect

   Synonyms:
   hide, screen, blink, cloke, disguise

Matched Categories

1. • Concealment
   • Cooking
   • Cover
   • Covering
   • Disguise
   • Hide
   • Photography

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. masknoun

   a covering to disguise or conceal the face

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   masque, masquerade party, masquerade

2. masknoun

   activity that tries to conceal something

   "no mask could conceal his ignorance"; "they moved in under a mask of friendship"

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   masque, masquerade party, masquerade

3. masquerade, masquerade party, masque, masknoun

   a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   masquerade costume, masque, masquerade party, masquerade, fancy dress

4. maskverb

   a protective covering worn over the face

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   masque, masquerade party, masquerade

5. dissemble, cloak, maskverb

   hide under a false appearance

   "He masked his disappointment"

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   act, feign, affect, pretend, dissemble, disguise, drape, block out, sham, cloak, robe, clothe

6. maskverb

   put a mask on or cover with a mask

   "Mask the children for Halloween"

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   cloak, dissemble, disguise, block out

7. disguise, maskverb

   make unrecognizable

   "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   cloak, dissemble, disguise, block out

8. maskverb

   cover with a sauce

   "mask the meat"

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   cloak, dissemble, disguise, block out

9. mask, block outverb

   shield from light

   Antonyms:
   unmask

   Synonyms:
   cloak, dissemble, disguise, screen, block out

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1. masknoun

   Synonyms:
   disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind, domino, maskoid, masquerade, mascaron

2. maskverb

   Synonyms:
   disguise, masquerade, veil

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mask

   Synonyms:
   Psychology Barrier

How to use mask in a sentence?

1. Rochelle Walensky:

   We are assessing the most important factors based on where we are in the pandemic, and we'll soon put guidance in place that is relevant and encourages prevention measures when they are most needed to protect public health and our hospitals. We want to give people a break from things like mask wearing when these metrics are better and then have the ability to reach for them again should things worsen.

2. Paul Valery:

   Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

3. Unknown:

   It will set a good example for the common public if top policy makers, panelist, correspondents, editors, newsreader wear mandatory protection mask on their mouth all the time to stop the spread of virus.

4. Joseph Vinetz:

   To avoid fogging up your glasses -- I have the problem Joseph Vinetz -- short of getting Lasik surgery, you have to fold the mask around your nose so that the air coming out of your mouth or nose doesn't rise to your glasses.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   I've been saying over and over and over again, wear your mask.

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