VERB | communication | pretend, feign, sham, affect, dissemble | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive |
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creation | pretend, dissemble, act | behave unnaturally or affectedly | |
possession | pretend | put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | |
communication | pretend, guess, venture, hazard | put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | |
communication | pretend, make, make believe | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | |
communication | pretend, profess | state insincerely | |
NOUN | act | pretend, make-believe | the enactment of a pretense |
ADJECTIVE | all | pretend, make-believe | imagined as in a play |
Sounds | priyteh'nd | |
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Rhymes | amend ... wend: 48 rhymes with ehnd... |
Meaning | imagined as in a play. | |
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Example | "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" | |
Synonym | make-believe | |
Broader | unreal | lacking in reality or substance or genuineness |
Meaning | The enactment of a pretense. | |
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Example | "it was just pretend" | |
Synonym | make-believe | |
Broader | pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning | The act of giving a false / false / false appearance |
Spanish | fantasía, imaginación, simulación | |
Catalan | simulació | |
Verbs | pretend | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like |
Meaning | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
Synonyms | feign, sham, affect, dissemble | |
Narrower | mouth | articulate silently |
play possum | To pretend / pretend to be dead | |
take a dive | pretend / pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer | |
talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fake | Speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | |
Broader | misrepresent, belie | represent falsely |
Similar to | make, pretend, make believe | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like |
Spanish | afectar, aparentar, fingir, pretender, simular | |
Catalan | aparençar, aparentar, fingir, simular | |
Nouns | pretender | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
pretense, pretending | the act of giving a false / false / false appearance | |
pretense | pretending with intention to deceive / deceive |
Meaning | Behave unnaturally or affectedly. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | dissemble, act | |
Narrower | simulate, assume, sham, feign | make a pretence of |
Similar to | act, behave, do | Behave in a certain manner |
Spanish | actuar, dissimular, fingir | |
Catalan | actuar, dissimular | |
Nouns | pretender | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
Meaning | Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "pretend the title of King" | |
Broader | claim, lay claim, arrogate | demand as being one's due or property |
Nouns | Pretender | a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) |
pretense | a false / false or unsupportable quality | |
pretension | the advancing of a claim |
Meaning | Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Example | "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" | |
Synonyms | guess, venture, hazard | |
Narrower | predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise | make a prediction about |
suspect, surmise | imagine to be the case or true or probable | |
Broader | speculate | talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion |
Spanish | adivinar, aparentar, aventurar, conjeturar, especular, fingir | |
Catalan | aparentar, aventurar, conjecturar, endevinar, fingir |
Meaning | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Synonyms | make, make believe | |
Narrower | go through the motions | pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it |
Broader | act, play, represent | Play a role or part |
Similar to | feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive |
Spanish | pretender | |
Nouns | pretend | the enactment of a pretense |
Meaning | state insincerely. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Examples |
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Synonym | profess | |
Broader | claim | assert or affirm strongly |
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