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Type Words
Synonyms show
Type of feigning, pretending, simulation, pretense, pretence


they try to keep up appearances.
Type Words
Synonyms appearing, coming into court
Type of attendance, attending
Derivation appear
Type Words
Synonyms visual aspect
Type of quality
Has types defect, deformity, discoloration, discolouration, disfiguration, disfigurement, effect, elaborateness, etiolation, face, form, format, gloss, hairiness, hairlessness, homeliness, image, impression, visage, agerasia, beauty, blemish, cast, color, colour, complexion, countenance, decorativeness, linear perspective, look, mar, ornateness, persona, perspective, phase, pilosity, plainness, semblance, shape, sleekness, stain, superficies, ugliness, vanishing point, view
Derivation appear
Type Words
Type of mental representation, representation, internal representation
Has types semblance, illusion, three-d, front, 3d, 3-d
Derivation appear


I tried to describe his appearance to the police.
Type Words
Type of arrival
Has types apparition, emersion, reappearance, emergence, return
Derivation appear


the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period.
it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America.
Type Words
Type of happening, occurrent, natural event, occurrence
Has types materialisation, manifestation, materialization, apparition, reappearance
Derivation appear

Examples of appearance

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Others said that regardless of the law, it creates an appearance of impropriety.
From the stltoday.com
The degree of secrecy has spawned the appearance of discrimination or collusion.
From the stltoday.com
Boston reliever Hideki Okajima worked a scoreless inning in his 51st appearance.
From the washingtontimes.com
As if to reward the decision, he scored four touchdowns in his first appearance.
From the omaha.com
Diego's very appearance on a football field left his father choked with emotion.
From the denverpost.com
About 100 parents attended Wakefield's first Minneapolis appearance in December.
From the denverpost.com
After the appearance, on CNBC Dec. 21, Whitney warned of indiscriminate selling.
From the bloomberg.com
For some of the veterans, it would be redemption for their last bowl appearance.
From the kansas.com
After a decade long playoff drought, the Raiders can taste a playoff appearance.
From the chron.com
More examples
  • Outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
  • The event of coming into sight
  • Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
  • A mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police"
  • The act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America"
  • Pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression; "they try to keep up appearances"; "that ceremony is just for show"
  • (Appearances (film)) Appearances is a 1921 short drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now lost.
  • The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition; Personal presence; look; aspect; mien; apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others; The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a ...
  • (Appearances) Appears in every episode.