Synonyms for Playact:

• v.

  •affect (verb)
  • bluff,
  • contrive,
  • adopt,
  • take on,
  • assume.
  •creation (verb)
  • playact.
  •do (verb)
  • deport,
  • carry,
  • get by,
  • quit,
  • muddle through,
  • operate,
  • conduct,
  • make out,
  • seem,
  • fare,
  • discourse,
  • demean,
  • bear,
  • present,
  • produce,
  • give,
  • manage,
  • appear,
  • comport.
  •dramatize (verb)
  • execute,
  • lay it on,
  • overdo,
  • amplify,
  • give color to,
  • play on heartstrings,
  • exaggerate,
  • tragedize,
  • farcialize,
  • overstate,
  • play to gallery,
  • play up,
  • melodramatize,
  • splash,
  • make a production of,
  • show,
  • stage.
  •enact (verb)
  • achieve,
  • play the part of,
  • depict,
  • appear as.
  •fool (verb)
  • hoodwink,
  • suck in,
  • flimflam,
  • hoax,
  • kid,
  • chicane,
  • gull,
  • play a trick on,
  • jive,
  • play-act,
  • bamboozle,
  • outfox,
  • diddle,
  • scam,
  • trifle,
  • take in,
  • fake out,
  • put one over on,
  • Juke,
  • delude,
  • con,
  • fox,
  • dupe,
  • snow,
  • lead on,
  • spoof.
  •impersonate (verb)
  • ditto,
  • mirror,
  • ape.
  •make believe (verb)
  • fantasize,
  • fool,
  • dream.
  •perform (verb)
  • display,
  • render,
  • exhibit,
  • offer.
  •play-act (verb)
  • parody,
  • make debut,
  • portray,
  • make up,
  • imitate,
  • assume the role,
  • suppose,
  • take part,
  • burlesque,
  • characterize,
  • mug,
  • reproduce,
  • ham it up,
  • go over,
  • put on a front,
  • say one's piece,
  • purport,
  • masquerade,
  • strut,
  • rehearse,
  • imagine,
  • personify,
  • mimic,
  • put it over.
  •pose (verb)
  • attitudinize,
  • show off,
  • grandstand,
  • pass off.
  •posture (verb)
  • pass for,
  • make a show,
  • do for effect,
  • fake it.
  •put on (verb)
  • deceive,
  • trick,
  • confuse,
  • confound,
  • don,
  • strike,
  • pull.
  •simulate (verb)
  • fabricate,
  • knock off,
  • crib,
  • pirate,
  • disguise,
  • concoct,
  • steal,
  • lift,
  • misrepresent,
  • borrow,
  • cheat,
  • invent,
  • equivocate,
  • replicate,
  • phony,
  • feature,
  • copy,
  • fence,
  • favor,
  • lie,
  • resemble,
  • prevaricate.
  •tread the boards (verb)
  • appear on stage.

• Other synonyms:

  •dramatize
  • Burlesquing,
  • lays on,
  • Burlesqued,
  • laying on,
  • lay on,
  • laid on,
  • ham up.
  •enact
  • Enacting,
  • played the part of,
  • enact.
  •pretend
  • assumed role.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fit,
  • overact,
  • fiddle,
  • dally,
  • come out,
  • underplay,
  • profess,
  • flirt,
  • commit,
  • find,
  • meet,
  • make a show of,
  • star,
  • emote,
  • sketch,
  • let on,
  • feign,
  • register,
  • troupe,
  • put on,
  • dissemble,
  • pantomime,
  • upstage,
  • encounter,
  • stooge,
  • act as,
  • dramatise,
  • playing,
  • excite,
  • wear,
  • move,
  • gammon,
  • put on an act,
  • ham,
  • re-create,
  • behave,
  • converge,
  • bring,
  • barnstorm,
  • wreak,
  • mime,
  • run,
  • represent,
  • patter,
  • play a part,
  • overplay,
  • four flush,
  • bet,
  • accomplish,
  • steal the show,
  • Emotionalize,
  • make for,
  • cover up,
  • counterfeit,
  • recreate.

Antonyms for Playact:

• v.

  • affect
    stop, tell truth.
  • do
    idle, fail, refrain, put off, defer, direct, pass, withhold, take, halt, undo, destroy, miss, lose, neglect.
  • dramatize
    reduce, ignore, veto, prevent, refuse, abandon.
  • enact
    hinder, repeal.
  • impersonate
    differ, be original, oppose, reverse.
  • make believe
    live reality.
  • perform
    deny, hide, conceal.
  • play
    watch, work, listen.
  • pose
    move, be genuine, go.
  • posture
    be truthful.
  • pretend
    be honest.
  • simulate
    receive, give, be real, meet, reveal, face.

Hypernym for Playact:

• v.

  • creation
    overplay, pantomime, ham it up, underplay, stooge, ham, overact, mime, underact.

Hyponym for Playact:

• v.

  • creation
    perform.