Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cosplay
Participle: cosplayed
Gerund: cosplaying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cosplay |
| you | cosplay |
| he;she;it | cosplays |
| we | cosplay |
| you | cosplay |
| they | cosplay |
Perfect
| I | have cosplayed |
| you | have cosplayed |
| he;she;it | has cosplayed |
| we | have cosplayed |
| you | have cosplayed |
| they | have cosplayed |
Past
| I | cosplayed |
| you | cosplayed |
| he;she;it | cosplayed |
| we | cosplayed |
| you | cosplayed |
| they | cosplayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cosplayed |
| you | had cosplayed |
| he;she;it | had cosplayed |
| we | had cosplayed |
| you | had cosplayed |
| they | had cosplayed |
Future
| I | will cosplay |
| you | will cosplay |
| he;she;it | will cosplay |
| we | will cosplay |
| you | will cosplay |
| they | will cosplay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cosplayed |
| you | will have cosplayed |
| he;she;it | will have cosplayed |
| we | will have cosplayed |
| you | will have cosplayed |
| they | will have cosplayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cosplay |
| you | cosplay |
| he;she;it | cosplay |
| we | cosplay |
| you | cosplay |
| they | cosplay |
Perfect
| I | have cosplayed |
| you | have cosplayed |
| he;she;it | have cosplayed |
| we | have cosplayed |
| you | have cosplayed |
| they | have cosplayed |
Imperfect
| I | cosplayed |
| you | cosplayed |
| he;she;it | cosplayed |
| we | cosplayed |
| you | cosplayed |
| they | cosplayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had cosplayed |
| you | had cosplayed |
| he;she;it | had cosplayed |
| we | had cosplayed |
| you | had cosplayed |
| they | had cosplayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cosplay |
| you | would cosplay |
| he;she;it | would cosplay |
| we | would cosplay |
| you | would cosplay |
| they | would cosplay |
Perfect
| I | would have cosplayed |
| you | would have cosplayed |
| he;she;it | would have cosplayed |
| we | would have cosplayed |
| you | would have cosplayed |
| they | would have cosplayed |
Imperative
| you | cosplay |
| we | Let's cosplay |
| you | cosplay |
Verbs conjugated like 'cosplay'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cosplay'
codisplay,
comply,
copay,
display,
misplay,
splay,
clay,
coapply,
collab,
collar,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play. The verb is derived from the noun. See: English '
costume'.
Verbs referencing "cosplay"
Thai
คอสเพลย์, Dutch
cosplayen.
Sample Sentences
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She cosplayed at the manga convention.
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One wears a Mysterious Figure cloak. Another is trying his best to cosplay as Steve, and is wearing a wig that keeps on threatening to slide backwards off his head, and is being held in place by a piece of string under the bottom of the head that's a bit too long. [1999 February 23, Steven Scougall, “[GRIT] Lord Have Mercy...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:]
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Senior politicians have cosplayed as train drivers, ambulance workers, Border Force officials – the list goes on. [2022 December 23, Marina Hyde, “Who can doubt the futuristic brilliance of [Rishi] Sunak and co? They’ve given us driverless government”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:]
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She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.
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The most bizarre sketch involved Widja Santoso in a rioutous Monthy Python-esque^([sic]) message on the proper way to cosplay... C-ko. [1993 July 10, E. Kontei, “Con Report: ANIME EXPO”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:]
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[Law] Asuncion, who has glaucoma, a vision disorder, has been attending the gathering since 2006, the first year of the show. He has often cosplayed a version of Cyclops, a leader of the X-Men, who has his own eyesight issues. [2024 October 18, George Gene Gustines, “At Comic Con, Emergency Tailors Keep Cosplayers in Character”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2024:]
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“He’s cosplaying as a goober,” one local [Mike Holcomb] memorably put it on Twitter. [2018 July 15, Richard Fausset, “Georgia Governor Candidate [Casey Cagle] Caught Saying He’s in Race to Be the ‘Craziest’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2018:]
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Whilst their stability was generally an improvement on earlier German destroyers, as the vessels no longer displayed a strong desire to cosplay as U-boats, the main armament proved to be something of a problem. [2022 August 27, Drachinifel, 2:44 from the start, in Type 1936A / Narvik class - Guide 298, via YouTube, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:]
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On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals. [2022 September 13, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:]
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Nigel Farage is a “political fraud and hypocrite” who is “cosplaying” as a working-class champion in order to win votes at this week’s local elections, the UK’s most senior union chief [Paul Nowak] has warned. [2025 April 27, Pippa Crerar, “Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2025:]
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Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war? [2022 March 17, Michael Luciano, quoting Sergiy Kyslytsya, “‘The Russian Federation Has Decided to Cosplay the Nazi Third Reich’: Ukraine’s Ambassador Blasts Russian Counterpart to His Face”, in Aidan McLaughlin, editor, Mediaite, New York, N.Y.: Abrams Media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2022:]
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[…] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone. [2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:]