| 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 | |
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| Synonym | profess | |
| Broader | claim | assert or affirm strongly |
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