Poseur

What do we mean by poseur?

One who affects a particular attribute, attitude, or identity to impress or influence others. noun

One who poses, or takes an attitude, physical or mental, which is assumed for effect; one who attitudinizes. noun

A person who poses or attitudizes, esp. mentally.

One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. noun

A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not noun

One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

Yes kids, that is how you spell poseur. No, I'm not trying to spell it some "fancy french way." Don't believe me? Let's go take a look at handy old Webster's: Main Entry: po·seur Pronunciation: pO-'z&r Function: noun Etymology: French Date: 1872 : a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person Urban Dictionary

Poseur is the correct version of the more common "poser". The term is used for 2 reasons- A) As an insult, used by one who is insecure and attempts to enhance their image by making people believe they have the authority to call someone else a poseur, or B) One who groups him or her self in a particular social clique in order to appear trendy or "edgy" but doesn't believe in the principals held by said clique and is only leeching onto it in order to avoid the social ridicule of not being part of a clique. A poseur will probably change their "style" once every 6 months, possibly more. The common thread is insecurity- the insecurity to be yourself and be happy with it. Poseurs are the kinds of people who only appear "cool" to people who are just as insecure as they are. But no one ever found success lying to themselves for acceptance. Urban Dictionary

Somebody acting in a manner inconsistent with their true self. Urban Dictionary

A person who pretends to be someone he/she is not. Can be used in both the English and French languages. Means the same thing as poser. Urban Dictionary

1. A poser is most commonly defined as someone who acts in a manner inconsistent with their personality. One who tries to be something they are not. 2. One who accuses others of being poseurs, or more commonly "posers," in order to up their own social status, so that they themsleves will not be labeled as a poseur. Urban Dictionary

1. A Conformist: someone who does what everyone else is doing b/c its "in", "trendy", or "cool" to do at the time. 2. Someone who puts themself under a certain label in order to be accepted by others who have conformed to that same label. -It really doesn't matter what you wear or what you listen to in terms of music, as long as YOU YOURSELF truly like the music and the way you look. -You won't be a poseur so long as you do what you like for YOURSELF, instead of doing things to be accepted by people who will find VERY little meaning in what individuality really means. Urban Dictionary

One who changes themself completely because they either want to fit in, or because they want to be "different" then everyone else which is just conforming. Urban Dictionary

Dude, come ON..... If you acctually like what you say you like then your not a poser exanple- if sombody were to say that they liked Green Day, Avril, and Good Charlotte, and they ment it, then technically they arnt a poser, they are being themselves Another thing Lets say some steriotypically "goth" girl/boy were to have this absolute love of eminem, and like ownd all of the albums and had a few t-shirts and stuff like that, people would call him/her a poseur. Because he/she didnt fit in with the steriotype. IF somebody is acctually expressing themself it does NOT make then a poser not to fit in with anyones expectations that totally defeats the entire purpose of the word. SO A poser is ACCTUALLY somone who does not liek what they say they do example: Some preppy girl decides to wear all black just becasue she wants to be "non conforming" however, she still listens to hip hop and goes sailing in her tiny bikini the end. thats it. move on. Urban Dictionary

Slang-only 1) N. One who attempts to acheive a status, look or appeal which they do not have the traits to posess. Also could be someone posing as something that they are not, for reasons known or unknown. 2)High-school label. Used as a degrading term toward the sort of people who wear pyramid belts etc. but giggle a lot. However, the label is equally immature. 3)The word that the misspelling "poser" came from, the reason for which being undecided but either a) George Bush didn't like the fact that "poseur" sounded French, or b) some moron couldn't spell and it spread. Urban Dictionary

The overly insecure bastard who belongs nowhere. they just dont understand that labels and stereotypes dont exist. they just happen naturally. poseurs may dress and spend a million dollars on clothes to make them the person they want to be, but any real person can automatically pick them up from a group of kids, they think they belong to. many preppies become poseurs as they try oh so hard to be in style. listen up my dears, who cares about the word "trend?" we can stress this on and on, but poseurs will never understand that being themselves would be much beter off for them rather than changing their clothes/music taste/dialogue to be something thats "in." think about it this way, being a poseur, evryone in the so-called "label" that ur trying to be in hates you, ur most likely not really enjoying being who ur trying to be unless u hav so much experience as a poseur u might as well jump off a cliff 5 million times and never get rid of ur deadly disease, and u probably hav no true friends. trust me, just be you. dont giv others and yourself a bad name. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to poseur:
poseur, poser.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word poseur:
poser, goth, stylistic, punk, ink, bands, person, metal, scene, heavy, real, whose, artist, term, rock, style, little.

Words that rhyme with poseur:
closer, poser, bowser, composer, dozer, bulldozer, disposer, hoser, proser, tozer, towser, moser, noser, roser, boser, josser, loeser, koser, kozar, mozer, rowser, rozar, roeser, moeser, bestows her, blows her, chose her, compose her, depose her, disclose her, dispose her, droser, enclose her, expose her, froze her, goes her, goeser, grows her, impose her, interpose her, joser, knows her, nose her, oeser, oppose her, owes her, pose her, predispose her, propose her, repose her, rose her, shadows her, shows her, slows her, suppose her, throws her, undergoes her.

Adjectives that are often used to describe poseur:
mere, literary, great, old, intellectual, pretentious, young, incorrigible, grand, consummate, inveterate, conceited, pompous, shallow, arrant, vain, silly, brilliant, magnificent, insincere, successful, vulgar, conscious, prodigious, cynical, romantic, accomplished, armed, american, ridiculous, mad, bizarre, lucky, splendid, artistic, eloquent, moral, melancholy, handsome, thorough, eternal, bohemian, suspicious, charming, adolescent, cheap, competent, intense, canny, uncomfortable, tremendous, unskilful, insufferable, empty, emasculated, effeminate, futurist, impressionist, perfect, boorish, eccentric, sentimental, awkward, terrible, foolish.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective poseur:
buyer, aims, type.

Consonant match to poseur:
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Words that sound like poseur:
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