pretend
Noun
- the enactment of a pretense
- "it was just pretend"
- The act of engaging in pretend play.
Verb
Verb Forms: pretended, pretending, pretends
- To act as if something is true, often for play or deception.
- make believe with the intent to deceive
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
- "pretend the title of King"
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- state insincerely
- "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"
- "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- To engage in make-believe.
- To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
- To hold before one; to extend.
Adjective Satellite
- imagined as in a play
- "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
Adj
- Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
Examples
- As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.
- He would PRETEND to be contemplating a complex play, when in fact, he’d already seen the obvious bingo.
- If you don't like it, say so. You don't have to pretend.
- She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
- She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.
- She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.
- The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.
- To get into the club, he pretended to be over 18.
- We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.
- You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.
- You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
Origin / Etymology
From Anglo-Norman pretendre, Middle French pretendre (French prétendre (“to claim, demand”)), from Latin praetendere (“to put forward, hold out, pretend”), from prae- (“pre-”) + tendō (“stretch”); see tend.
Synonyms
act, affect, dissemble, feign, guess, hazard, make, make believe, make-believe, profess, sham, venture, make like
Scrabble Score: 10
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