Word: Pretend
How to pronounce: prɪˈtend
Verb
Definitions:
1. Speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.
Example sentences: "I closed my eyes and pretended I was asleep"
2. Lay claim to (a quality or title)
Example sentences: "He cannot pretend to sophistication"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Not really what it is represented as being; used in a game or deception.
Synonyms:
dissimulate
feign
pretend to be
dissemble
pretending to be
mock
profess
playact
purport
assume
act
simulate
mimic
sham
fake
artificial
counterfeit
simulated
invented
bogus
false
imaginal
affect
imagined
Derivations:
pretense
pretence
pretender
pretension
pretending
pretended
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Pretend in Other Languages...
Spanish: Pretender
German: Vorgeben
French: Prétendre
Italian: Fingere
Turkish: Davranmak
