Acting Synonyms and Antonyms

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The art and occupation of an actor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dramatics
  2. stage
A display of insincere behavior
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. simulation
  2. feigning
  3. playing
  4. impersonation
  5. performing
  6. stage playing
  7. playacting
  8. pretending
  9. simulating
  10. gesturing
  11. act
  12. ranting
  13. spouting
  14. orating
  15. dramatizing
  16. disguise
  17. behaving
  18. showing-off
  19. affectation mimicry
  20. posturing
  21. dissemblance
  22. enactment
  23. depiction
  24. portrayal
  25. masquerade
  26. pantomime
  27. footlights
  28. rendition
  29. dramatics
  30. histrionic art
  31. histrionic
  32. pretense
  33. stagecraft
  34. histrionicism
  35. theatricals
  36. performance
  37. sham
  38. histrionism
  39. dramatic action
  40. mimicry
  41. histrionics
  42. mime
  43. show
  44. pantomime(acting without speaking)
  45. personation
  46. humbuggery
  47. theatricality
  48. meretriciousness
To react in a specified way
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. working
  2. performing
  3. operating
  4. functioning
  5. behaving
Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. representing
  2. playing
  3. portraying
  4. working
  5. performing
  6. simulating
  7. pretending
  8. impersonating
  9. feigning
  10. faking
  11. mugging
  12. upstaging
  13. wielding
  14. hamming
  15. trying
  16. toiling
  17. overacting
  18. declaiming
  19. serving
  20. ranting
  21. producing
  22. spouting
  23. enacting
  24. dramatizing
  25. rehearsing
  26. operating
  27. officiating
  28. moving
  29. laboring
  30. functioning
  31. parodying
  32. doing
  33. burlesquing
  34. exploiting
  35. executing
  36. miming
  37. driving
  38. dissembling
  39. deeding
  40. deciding
  41. counterfeiting
  42. conducting
  43. comporting
  44. bestirring
  45. behaving
Antonyms:
  1. discontinuing
  2. hesitating
  3. abstaining
  4. ceasing
  5. refraining
  6. idling
  7. halting
  8. stopping
Perform on a stage or theater
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. playing
  2. staging
  3. presenting
  4. performing
  5. giving
  6. enacting
  7. dramatizing
Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. doing
  2. behaving
  3. appearing
  4. quitting
  5. deporting
  6. demeaning
  7. comporting
  8. carrying
  9. bearing
  10. acquitting
  11. seeming
Behave unnaturally or affectedly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pretending
  2. simulating
  3. shamming
  4. dissembling
  5. posing
  6. feigning
  7. faking
  8. counterfeiting
Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. temporary

Words Related to Acting

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Acting Sentence Examples

  • You're acting like a kid.

  • She is acting responsibly in his behalf.

  • If he was angry, he certainly wasn't acting like he usually did.

  • Then try and get an acting job.

  • She.d been acting squirrelly the past two days.

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