hypocritical

English

Etymology

From hypocritic + -al, from ὑποκριτικός (hupokritikos), from ὑποκριτής (hupokritēs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai, “I play a part on stage”), from ὑπό (hupo, “below”) + κρίνω (krinō, “I choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA:/hɪpəkrɪtɪkəl/

Adjective

hypocritical (comparative more hypocritical, superlative most hypocritical)

1. Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite. [from mid-16th c.]

Translations

characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite

• Afrikaans: skynheilig (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虛偽 (cmn), 虚伪 (cmn) (xūwěi), 假惺惺 (cmn) (jiǎxīngxīng), (morally) 偽善 (cmn), 伪善 (cmn) (wěishàn)

• Czech: pokrytecký (cs) m
• Dutch: hypocriet (nl), schijnheilig (nl)
• Esperanto: hipokrita (eo)
• Finnish: tekopyhä (fi)
• French: hypocrite (fr)
• German: heuchlerisch (de)

• Hebrew: צבוע (he)
• Italian: ipocrita (it)
• Norwegian: hyklete (no), skinnhellig (no), tilgjort (no)
• Romanian: ipocrit
• Russian: лицемерный (ru) (licemérnyj) , ханжеский (ru) (xánžeskij) 
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-aodannach (gd)
• Spanish: mocho (es)
• Swedish: hycklande (sv), skenhelig (sv)