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Adjective: posed  powzd
  1. Arranged for pictorial purposes
Verb: pose  powz
  1. Introduce
    "This poses an interesting question"
    - present
     
  2. Assume a posture as for artistic purposes
    "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
    - model, sit, posture
     
  3. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
    "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
    - impersonate, personate
     
  4. Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
    "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
    - posture
     
  5. Put into a certain place or abstract location
    - put, set, place, position, lay
     
  6. Be a mystery or bewildering to
    - perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

See also: poser, posing, unposed

Type of: acquit, be, bear, bedevil, befuddle, behave, betray, carry, comport, comprise, conduct, confound, confuse, constitute, deceive, deport, discombobulate, displace, display, exhibit, expose, fox, fuddle, lead astray, make up, move, represent, throw

Antonym: unposed

Encyclopedia: Pose