| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy".[Wordnet] 2. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.[Wordnet] 3. Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past.[Wordnet] 4. Double-faced; deceitful.[Websters] 5. Being insincere, hypocritical, disingenuous or false. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb janus-facedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (janus-facedly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective janus-faced.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Date "Janus-faced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Janus-faced lock | One having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. --Knight. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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