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Words related to pretend

Related / Similar Words: make-believe, profess, feign, sham, affect, dissemble, make, make believe, guess, venture, hazard, act

Definition:

the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend";

state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine";

make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache";

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress";

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong";

behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She''s just acting";

put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King";

imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish";

Hyponyms: play possum, take a dive, bull, fake, mouth, go through the motions, predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise, suspect, surmise, simulate, assume, sham, feign

Grouped Verbs: make, make believe, feign, sham, affect, dissemble, act, behave, do

Derivational Morphology: make, make believe, hypocrite, dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender, pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling, imposter, impostor, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player, pretending, simulation, postiche, malingerer, skulker, make-believe, luck, fortune, chance, hazard, guess, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis, guesser, act, Pretender, pretension

Language Translations:
Chinese: 假装		Dutch: voorwenden
Finnish: teeskennellä		French: feindre
German: vorgeben		Italian: fingere
Japanese: 振り		Korean: -인 체하다
Portuguese: fingir		Russian: делать вид
Spanish: fingir		Swedish: låtsa
Ukrainian: удавати

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