Synonyms for Pretend:

adj.
• pretended
- Impostrous
- Imposturous
• spurious
- unauthentic
- ungenuine
• disguised
- dis guised
- dis-guised
- fakest
- in cog
- in-cog
- more incog
- more pretend
- most incog
- most pretend
- under-cover
• fictional
- most fabricated
n.
- sail under false colors
- bang
- big
- birdie
- boo-boo
- bow-wow
- bunny
- choo-choo
- cold
- cross
- honest
• act
- pretend
• affect
- affect
• feign
- feign
v.
• act
- Re-present
- am on
- are on
- being on
- bring down house
- bringing down house
- bringing down the house
- brings down house
- brings down the house
- brought down house
- brought down the house
- did a turn
- did turn
- didst a turn
- didst turn
- do turn
- does a turn
- does turn
- doest a turn
- doest turn
- doeth a turn
- doeth turn
- doing a turn
- doing turn
- dost a turn
- dost turn
- doth a turn
- doth turn
- is on
- laid an egg
- laid egg
- lay egg
- laying an egg
- laying egg
- lays an egg
- lays egg
- made debut
- makes debut
- making debut
- played gig
- played part
- played role
- playing gig
- playing part
- playing role
- plays gig
- plays part
- plays role
- pre tend
- pre tending
- pre tends
- pre-tend
- pre-tending
- pre-tends
- puts it over
- puts over
- putting it over
- putting over
- re hearse
- re hearses
- re present
- re presented
- re presenting
- re presents
- re-hearse
- re-hearses
- re-presented
- re-presenting
- re-presents
- said one piece
- said one's piece
- said ones piece
- said piece
- say one piece
- say ones piece
- say piece
- saying one piece
- saying one's piece
- saying ones piece
- saying piece
- says one piece
- says one's piece
- says ones piece
- says piece
- takes part
- tread boards
- trod the boards
- was on
- wast on
- were on
- wert on
• bluff
- Illuded
- Illuding
- be guile
- be guiles
- be tray
- be trays
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- be-tray
- be-trays
- buncoed
- buncoing
- buncos
- de fraud
- de frauds
- de lude
- de ludes
- de-fraud
- de-frauds
- de-lude
- de-ludes
- fakes out
- faking out
- illudes
- mis lead
- mis leads
- mis-lead
- mis-leads
- psyching out
- psychs out
• claim
- be lieve
- be-lieve
- de clare
- de clares
- de fend
- de fended
- de fending
- de fends
- de-clare
- de-clares
- de-fend
- de-fended
- de-fending
- de-fends
- ex act
- ex acted
- ex acting
- ex acts
- ex-act
- ex-acted
- ex-acting
- ex-acts
- had dibs on something
- had dibs something
- haddest dibs on something
- haddest dibs something
- hadst dibs on something
- hadst dibs something
- has dibs on something
- has dibs something
- hast dibs on something
- hast dibs something
- hath dibs on something
- hath dibs something
- have dibs something
- having dibs on something
- having dibs something
- held out for
- hits up
- hitting up
- holding out for
- holds out for
- laid claim to
- laying claim to
- lays claim to
- pop question
- re quire
- re quired
- re quires
- re quiring
- re-quire
- re-quired
- re-quires
- re-quiring
- staked out
- stakes out
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
• conjecture
- guesstimates
- guesstimating
- hazard guess
- hazarded a guess
- hazarded guess
- hazarding a guess
- hazarding guess
- hazards a guess
- hazards guess
- take shot
- take stab
- takes a shot
- takes a stab
- takes shot
- takes stab
- taking a shot
- taking a stab
- taking shot
- taking stab
- took a shot
- took a stab
- took shot
- took stab
• counterfeit
- acted like
- acting like
- acts like
- carboned
- carboning
- circulated bad money
- circulates bad money
- circulating bad money
- did like
- didst like
- dittoing
- does like
- doest like
- doeth like
- doing like
- dost like
- doth like
- goes like
- going like
- made like
- made money
- makes like
- making like
- mimeoed
- mimeoing
- mimeos
- phonied
- phonied up
- phonies up
- phonying
- phonying up
- statted
- statting
- went like
• disguise
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- co loring
- co-loring
- dis guise
- dis guises
- dis guising
- dis-guise
- dis-guises
- dis-guising
- doctored up
- doctoring up
- doctors up
- glosses over
- glossing over
- put a false front
- put a front
- put false front
- put front
- put on front
- put up front
- puts a false front
- puts a front
- puts false front
- puts front
- puts on a false front
- puts on a front
- puts on false front
- puts on front
- puts up a front
- puts up front
- putting a false front
- putting a front
- putting false front
- putting front
- putting on a false front
- putting on a front
- putting on false front
- putting on front
- putting up a front
- putting up front
- re did
- re does
- re doing
- re done
- re-did
- re-does
- re-doing
- re-done
- wearing cheaters
- wears cheaters
- wore cheaters
• dissimulate
- dis simulate
- dis simulated
- dis simulates
- dis simulating
- dis-simulate
- dis-simulated
- dis-simulates
- dis-simulating
- make believed
- make believing
- make-believed
- make-believing
- makebelieved
- makebelieving
- present false face
- present false front
- presented a false face
- presented a false front
- presented false face
- presented false front
- presenting a false face
- presenting a false front
- presenting false face
- presenting false front
- presents a false face
- presents a false front
- presents false face
- presents false front
• evade
- beating around bush
- beats around bush
- beg question
- begged question
- begged the question
- begging question
- begs question
- begs the question
- by pass
- by passed
- by passes
- by passing
- de cline
- de clines
- de-cline
- de-clines
- fended off
- gat around
- gave runaround
- gave the runaround
- gets around
- give runaround
- gives runaround
- gives the runaround
- giving runaround
- giving the runaround
- got around
- gotten around
- keeping distance
- keeps distance
- kept distance
- laying low
- lays low
- lead a merry chase
- lead merry chase
- lead on merry chase
- leading a merry chase
- leading merry chase
- leading on a merry chase
- leading on merry chase
- leads a merry chase
- leads merry chase
- leads on a merry chase
- leads on merry chase
- led a merry chase
- led merry chase
- led on a merry chase
- led on merry chase
- passes up
- passing up
- slipped out
- slipping out
- slips out
- slipt out
- sneaked away
- sneaking away
- sneaks away
- snuck away
- steered clear of
- steers clear of
• fabricate
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- mis represent
- mis represented
- mis representing
- mis represents
- mis-represent
- mis-represented
- mis-representing
- mis-represents
- trumping up
- trumps up
• fake, falsify
- deceive
• fool
- juked
- juking
- out fox
- out foxed
- out foxes
- out foxing
- out-fox
- out-foxed
- out-foxes
- out-foxing
- played a trick on
- played trick on
- playing a trick on
- playing trick on
- plays a trick on
- plays trick on
- puts one over on
- putting one over on
- sucking in
- sucks in
• guess
- dare said
- dare saying
- dare says
- de duce
- de duces
- de-duce
- de-duces
- go out a limb
- go out limb
- goes out a limb
- goes out limb
- goes out on a limb
- goes out on limb
- going out a limb
- going out limb
- going out on a limb
- going out on limb
- happen up on
- happened up on
- happening up on
- happening upon
- happens up on
- happens upon
- jump a conclusion
- jump conclusion
- jump to conclusion
- jumped a conclusion
- jumped conclusion
- jumped to a conclusion
- jumped to conclusion
- jumping a conclusion
- jumping conclusion
- jumping to a conclusion
- jumping to conclusion
- jumps a conclusion
- jumps conclusion
- jumps to a conclusion
- jumps to conclusion
- lumped it
- lumping it
- lumps it
- pre dict
- pre-dict
- sized up
- sizes up
- take shot at
- take stab at
- takes a shot at
- takes a stab at
- takes shot at
- takes stab at
- taking a shot at
- taking a stab at
- taking shot at
- taking stab at
- thinking likely
- thinks likely
- thought likely
- took a shot at
- took a stab at
- took shot at
- took stab at
- went out a limb
- went out limb
- went out on a limb
- went out on limb
• imitate
- ape
- copy
- ditto
- duplicate
- echo
- emulate
- flatter
- mimic
- mirror
- mock
- parallel
- parody
- parrot
- portray
- reflect
- repeat
- replicate
- resemble
• invent
- create out thin air
- created out of thin air
- created out thin air
- creates out of thin air
- creates out thin air
- creating out of thin air
- creating out thin air
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- mis state
- mis stated
- mis states
- mis stating
- mis-state
- mis-stated
- mis-states
- mis-stating
- telling a white lie
- telling untruth
- telling white lie
- tells a white lie
- tells untruth
- tells white lie
- thinking up
- thinks up
- told a white lie
- told untruth
- told white lie
• kid
- made sport of
- making sport of
• make believe
- acted as if
- acted as though
- acting as if
- acting as though
- acts as if
- acts as though
- let like
- lets like
- lets on like
- letted like
- letted on like
- letting like
- letting on like
- made as if
- makes as if
- making as if
- playing the part
- plays the part
• make up
- Fabulized
- Fabulizing
- fabulizes
- faked it
- fakes it
- faking it
- improvs
- improvved
- improvving
- pre pare
- pre pared
- pre pares
- pre paring
- pre-pare
- pre-pared
- pre-paring
- re adies
- re-adies
- storifies
- storifying
• masquerade
- passed for
- passes as
- passes for
- passing as
- passing for
• mime
- panto mime
- panto mimed
- panto mimes
- panto miming
- panto-mime
- panto-mimed
- panto-mimes
- panto-miming
• play the part of
- pose
• pretend
- cover
- defraud
- forge
- show
- stage
Other synonyms:

•

dare
keep up
set up

•

appearance
artificial

•

imitation

•

synthetic

Other relevant words:

• act

• create

make up

• deceive

bluff

• fool

• imitate

• make up

ADLIB
Fabulize
IMPROV
Storify
ad lib
fake it
made up
makes up
play by ear
storified
writes

• make-believe

make as iforas though

• pettifog

niggle
pick to pieces

• posit

posits

• purport

• quibble

• seem

• suppose

dare-say
daresay
has a hunch
have a hunch
have sneaking suspicion
supposes
take as gospel truth
take stock in

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  pretending.
Independent
- Adjective
  like, seeming.
- Verb, past tense
  Appeared, Seemed.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  assuming.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  thinks, envisions, fantasises.
- Verb, base form
  affirm, allege, argue, aspire, assert, assume, believe, claim, contend, convince, demonstrate, deny, expect, forget, guess, hide, ignore, insist, like, persuade, purport, qualify, say, simulate, spend, suggest, suppose, tell, Hid.
Other Related
- Verb, base form
  presume.

What are the hypernyms for Pretend?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for pretend (as verbs)
- creation
  assume, sham, simulate, feign.

What are the hyponyms for Pretend?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for pretend (as nouns)
- act
  feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation.
hyponyms for pretend (as verbs)
- communication
  claim.
- possession
  lay claim, claim, arrogate.

What are the opposite words for pretend?

The antonyms for the word "pretend" include words such as genuine, authentic, real, sincere, truthful, and honest. These words convey opposite meanings and indicate a lack of falsity or insincerity. Whereas pretend means to behave in a manner contrary to reality, the antonyms imply a sense of authenticity and indicate actions that are consistent with one's true feelings and beliefs. Thus, we can say that while pretend is associated with deception and pretense, the antonyms describe qualities that are closely linked with integrity, trustworthiness, and genuineness. In conclusion, using these antonyms can help us communicate our thoughts more accurately and express ourselves in a more authentic and truthful manner.

What are the antonyms for Pretend?

adj.
• noun
- actual
- authentic
- believable
- bona fide
- convincing
- corporeal
- existent
- existing
- factual
- genuine
- legitimate
- material
- natural
- palpable
- physical
- premium
- pure
- quality
- real
- realistic
- solid
- substantial
- tangible
- true
- unadulterated
- valuable
- verifiable
- verified
v.
• advise
- clue in
- clued in
- clues in
- cluing in
- co unselling
- co-unselling
- fore warn
- fore warned
- fore warns
- fore-warn
- fore-warning
- fore-warns
- gave a pointer
- gave a tip
- gave pointer
- gave the word
- gave tip
- gave word
- give a pointer
- give a tip
- give pointer
- give the word
- give tip
- give word
- gives a pointer
- gives a tip
- gives pointer
- gives the word
- gives tip
- gives word
- giving a pointer
- giving a tip
- giving pointer
- giving the word
- giving tip
- giving word
- in form
- in forming
- in forms
- in-forming
- in-forms
- keep posted
- keeping posted
- keeps posted
- kept posted
- kibitz
- kibitzed
- kibitzes
- kibitzing
- laid it out
- lay it out
- laying it out
- lays it out
- let in on
- lets in on
- letted in on
- letting in on
- level with
- leveled with
- leveling with
- levelled with
- levelling with
- levels with
- made known
- make known
- makes known
- making known
- moves
- pointed out
- pointing out
- pre ached
- pre aching
- pre pare
- pre pared
- pre pares
- pre paring
- pre scribe
- pre scribing
- pre-ached
- pre-aching
- pre-pare
- pre-pared
- pre-pares
- pre-paring
- pre-scribe
- pre-scribed
- pre-scribes
- pre-scribing
- prompt
- put bug ear
- put bug in ear
- put in two cents
- put line
- put next to
- put on line
- put on the line
- put on to
- put the line
- put to
- put two cents
- puts bug ear
- puts bug in ear
- puts in two cents
- puts line
- puts next to
- puts on line
- puts on the line
- puts on to
- puts to
- puts two cents
- putting bug ear
- putting bug in ear
- putting in two cents
- putting line
- putting next to
- putting on line
- putting on the line
- putting on to
- putting the line
- putting to
- putting two cents
- re commend
- re commended
- re commending
- re commends
- re ported
- re porting
- re-commend
- re-commended
- re-commending
- re-commends
- re-ported
- re-porting
- tip off
- tipped off
- tipping off
- tips off
- up date
- up dated
- up dates
- up dating
- up-date
- up-dated
- up-dates
- up-dating
- update
• fake, falsify
- be honest
- deny
- reveal
- tell truth
• offer recommendation
- advise
• play the part of
- be original
- differ
- oppose
- reverse
- stop

Usage examples for Pretend

Beyond this it is vain to pretend that the law of Moses goes.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"

G. A. Chadwick

I don't see why I should pretend-with you!

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

I have make each day of the coffee for him, yes, a good drink, and for you not so good-forgive,-but for me and my mother, only to pretend, that it might last for him.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Famous quotes with Pretend

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Scott Adams
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler
I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Andre Agassi
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Victoria de los Angeles
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Michael Aston

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adj.

n.

v.

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