1. (of a question, problem, etc) ask, set or 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 [archaic]
    
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. Cause to have a certain (possibly abstract) location
   "The photographer posed the model by the window";
   - put, set, place, position, lay
    
6. Confuse or leave at a loss because of something complex or difficult to understand
   "The riddle posed even the brightest students";
   - confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate [informal], perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, dumbfound

1. Affected manners intended to impress others
   "Her sophisticated pose couldn't hide her rural background";
   - airs
    
2. A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
   "The model held the difficult pose for several minutes while the artist sketched"
    
3. Behaviour, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress
   "His upper-class accent was pure pose, as he grew up in a working-class neighbourhood";
   - affectation, mannerism, affectedness

Derived forms: posing, posed, poses

See also: posed, unposed

Type of: acquit, act, affect, affectedness, attitude, be, bear, bear on, bear upon, behave, betray, carry, comport, comprise, conduct, constitute, deceive, deport, displace, display, do, effeteness, exhibit, expose, impact, lead astray, make up, move, position, posture, pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretending, pretense [N. Amer], represent, simulation

Encyclopedia: Pose, Martin