Acting

English

Adjective

Acting (not comparable)

1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

Verb

acting

1. Present participle of act.

Noun

Acting (plural Actings)

1. An intended action or deed.
2. Pretending.
3. (drama) The occupation of an actor.
4. (law) The deeds or actions of parties are called actings to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deeds and actions.

Adjectives for Acting

immobile; technical; robust; allegorical; iridescent; extravagant; resolute; credit; able; unnatural; effective; apt; adequate; inspired; imitative; wooden; facile; listless; pantomimic; sluggish; unconvincing.

Thesaurus

act; action; active; activism; activity; ad interim; affectation; aping; appearance; at work; attitudinizing; behavior; behavioral; bluff; bluffing; buffoonery; business; characterization; cheating; color; coloring; deception; delusion; deputative; deputy; disguise; dissemblance; dissembling; dissimulation; doing; dumb show; embodiment; employment; enacting; enactment; exercise; facade; face; fakery; faking; false air; false front; false show; falsity; feigning; feint; four-flushing; fraud; front; function; functional; functioning; gag; gilt; gloss; going; going on; ham; hammy acting; hoke; hokum; humbug; humbuggery; imitation; impersonation; imposture; in exercise; in force; in hand; in operation; in play; in practice; in process; in the works; inaction; incarnation; interim; masquerade; meretriciousness; mimesis; mimicking; mimicry; miming; movements; mummery; occupation; on foot; on the fire; ongoing; operating; operation; operational; operations; ostentation; outward show; overacting; pantomime; pantomiming; patter; performance; performing; personation; personification; play; playacting; playing; portrayal; pose; posing; posture; practice; practicing; praxis; pretense; pretension; pretext; pro tem; pro tempore; projection; representation; representative; running; seeming; semblance; serving; sham; show; simulacrum; simulation; slapstick; speciousness; stage business; stage directions; stage presence; stunt; supply; swing; taking a role; varnish; window dressing; work; working; workings

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæktɪŋ/

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Translations

Adjective

Temporarily assuming the duties or authority

Chinese: Mandarin: 代理 (cmn) (dàilǐ), 代- (cmn) (dài-) Finnish: väliaikainen (fi), virkaa toimittava (fi) French: intérimaire (fr), par intérim (fr)

German: amtierender (de), stellvertretend (de), geschäftsführend (de) Japanese: 代理の (ja) (だいりの, dairi-no) Russian: исполняющий обязанности (ru) (ispolnjájuščij objázannosti), и.о. (ru) (i.o.) Spanish: en funciones, suplente (es)