Synonyms for Pre-tending:

• adj.

  •hypothetical (adjective)
  • conjectural,
  • suppositious,
  • Concocted,
  • theoretic,
  • conditional,
  • imagined,
  • problematic,
  • disputable,
  • uncertain,
  • refutable,
  • provisory,
  • indeterminate,
  • Postulated,
  • indefinite,
  • vague,
  • contingent,
  • questionable,
  • presumptive,
  • theoretical,
  • Conjecturable,
  • casual,
  • suspect,
  • contestable,
  • stochastic,
  • speculative,
  • Presupposed,
  • debatable,
  • equivocal,
  • unconfirmed,
  • imaginary,
  • suppositional,
  • supposed,
  • assumptive,
  • doubtful,
  • academic,
  • putative.
  •loafing (adjective)
  • careless,
  • slacking,
  • shirking,
  • indifferent,
  • uninterested,
  • Evading,
  • apathetic.

• n.

  •acting (noun)
  • stooging,
  • portrayal,
  • portraying,
  • Enacting,
  • pretending,
  • depiction,
  • playing,
  • pantomime,
  • seeming,
  • Simulating,
  • mimicry,
  • posing,
  • characterization,
  • hamming,
  • play acting,
  • dramatics,
  • feigning,
  • Imitating,
  • assuming,
  • putting,
  • Theatricals,
  • stagecraft,
  • Dramatizing,
  • improvisation,
  • showing off,
  • impersonation,
  • performance,
  • mime,
  • theatre,
  • imitation,
  • posturing,
  • enactment,
  • rendition,
  • histrionics.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • braggadocio,
  • swaggering,
  • spectacle,
  • fuss,
  • flamboyance,
  • pretension,
  • Vaunting,
  • false front,
  • swagger,
  • swank,
  • magnificence,
  • flourish,
  • pageant,
  • pomposity,
  • grandstand play,
  • shine,
  • affectation,
  • put-on,
  • parade,
  • Flaunting,
  • Parading,
  • boast,
  • exhibition,
  • array,
  • splendor,
  • pomp,
  • display,
  • splurge,
  • flash,
  • brag,
  • garishness,
  • showiness,
  • pompousness,
  • window-dressing,
  • demonstration,
  • bragging,
  • vaunt,
  • bravado,
  • pageantry,
  • vainglory,
  • showoff,
  • boasting,
  • show,
  • pretentiousness.
  •pretending (noun)
  • cheating,
  • dissembling,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • pretense,
  • Shamming,
  • simulation,
  • covering,
  • concealment,
  • masking,
  • dissimulation,
  • Bluffing,
  • acting.

• v.

  •act (verb)
  • burlesque,
  • parody,
  • bring down the house,
  • personate,
  • enact,
  • perform,
  • play part,
  • take part,
  • stooge,
  • say one's piece,
  • strut,
  • lay an egg,
  • play gig,
  • mug,
  • star,
  • go on,
  • rehearse,
  • play act,
  • personify,
  • put it over,
  • characterize,
  • be on,
  • ham,
  • ham it up,
  • play role,
  • go over,
  • dramatize,
  • emote,
  • tread the boards,
  • make debut,
  • pretend,
  • do a turn.
  •assume (verb)
  • fake,
  • adopt.
  •bluff (verb)
  • lie,
  • snow,
  • juggle,
  • Illude,
  • bunco,
  • shuck,
  • trick,
  • humbug,
  • double-cross,
  • betray,
  • defraud,
  • psych out,
  • con,
  • take in.
  •claim (verb)
  • advance,
  • exact,
  • solicit,
  • insist,
  • call for,
  • hold,
  • HIT,
  • require,
  • postulate,
  • stake out,
  • pronounce,
  • lay claim to,
  • pick up,
  • defend,
  • pop the question,
  • challenge,
  • need,
  • vindicate,
  • justify,
  • hit up,
  • ask,
  • adduce,
  • declare,
  • requisition,
  • hold out for,
  • collect,
  • assert,
  • believe,
  • have dibs on something,
  • uphold,
  • knock,
  • take.
  •conjecture (verb)
  • estimate,
  • guess,
  • expect,
  • theorize,
  • infer,
  • conclude,
  • judge,
  • glean,
  • deem,
  • surmise,
  • take a stab,
  • take for granted,
  • gather,
  • fancy,
  • hypothesize,
  • hazard a guess,
  • conceive,
  • think,
  • guesstimate,
  • figure,
  • take a shot,
  • feel,
  • presume.
  •counterfeit (verb)
  • ape,
  • knock off,
  • clone,
  • circulate bad money,
  • mimeo,
  • fabricate,
  • STAT,
  • phony,
  • act like,
  • go like,
  • xerox,
  • carbon,
  • phony up,
  • DO,
  • mint,
  • copy,
  • make money,
  • forge,
  • make like,
  • ditto,
  • do like,
  • coin.
  •disguise (verb)
  • front,
  • camouflage,
  • touch up,
  • gloss over,
  • secrete,
  • dress up,
  • antique,
  • cloak,
  • belie,
  • cover,
  • obscure,
  • screen,
  • hide,
  • obfuscate,
  • veil,
  • redo,
  • cover up,
  • change,
  • conceal,
  • put on a false front,
  • varnish,
  • muffle,
  • falsify,
  • wear cheaters,
  • shroud,
  • garble,
  • doctor up,
  • beard,
  • alter,
  • age,
  • color.
  •dissimulate (verb)
  • mask,
  • present a false front,
  • present a false face,
  • make-believe.
  •evade (verb)
  • circumvent,
  • put off,
  • avoid,
  • pussyfoot,
  • steer clear of,
  • shift,
  • fend off,
  • slip out,
  • bypass,
  • beg the question,
  • sneak away,
  • prevaricate,
  • shun,
  • cop out,
  • hedge,
  • fly,
  • baffle,
  • fence,
  • equivocate,
  • waffle,
  • lay low,
  • beat around bush,
  • elude,
  • confuse,
  • eschew,
  • sidestep,
  • balk,
  • shuffle,
  • duck,
  • tergiversate,
  • weasel,
  • decline,
  • cavil,
  • double,
  • shy,
  • dodge,
  • keep distance,
  • pass up,
  • flee,
  • shirk,
  • give the runaround,
  • parry,
  • lead on a merry chase,
  • get around,
  • escape.
  •fabricate (verb)
  • form,
  • concoct,
  • misrepresent,
  • contrive,
  • devise,
  • trump up,
  • invent,
  • fib.
  •fool (verb)
  • diddle,
  • gull,
  • suck in,
  • spoof,
  • fox,
  • hoax,
  • put one over on,
  • flimflam,
  • play-act,
  • trifle,
  • lead on,
  • scam,
  • kid,
  • Juke,
  • bamboozle,
  • chicane,
  • outfox,
  • play a trick on.
  •guess (verb)
  • deduce,
  • predicate,
  • size up,
  • divine,
  • speculate,
  • happen upon,
  • predict,
  • think likely,
  • take a stab at,
  • conjecture,
  • reason,
  • penetrate,
  • reckon,
  • opine,
  • chance,
  • calculate,
  • survey,
  • hazard,
  • pick,
  • venture,
  • work out,
  • lump it,
  • select,
  • dare say,
  • solve,
  • suggest,
  • take a shot at,
  • go out on a limb,
  • fathom,
  • jump to a conclusion.
  •imitate (verb)
  • look like,
  • do likewise,
  • match,
  • parallel,
  • resemble,
  • model after,
  • emulate,
  • take off,
  • send up,
  • reduplicate,
  • reflect,
  • borrow,
  • be like,
  • repeat,
  • follow in footsteps,
  • travesty,
  • mirror,
  • duplicate,
  • echo,
  • mock,
  • caricature,
  • pattern after,
  • follow suit,
  • follow,
  • play a part,
  • replicate.
  •invent (verb)
  • misstate,
  • create out of thin air,
  • vamp,
  • think up,
  • tell a white lie,
  • tell untruth,
  • conjure up.
  •kid (verb)
  • fun,
  • jolly,
  • jape,
  • jest,
  • josh,
  • tease,
  • razz,
  • banter,
  • bother,
  • rib,
  • rag,
  • roast,
  • joke,
  • make sport of,
  • make fun of.
  •make believe (verb)
  • fantasize,
  • dream,
  • act as if,
  • act as though,
  • let on like,
  • play the part.
  •make up (verb)
  • ad-lib,
  • make,
  • meld,
  • Fabulize,
  • mix,
  • compose,
  • join,
  • hatch,
  • put together,
  • IMPROV,
  • fuse,
  • merge,
  • combine,
  • dream up,
  • play by ear,
  • compound,
  • cook up,
  • Storify,
  • blend,
  • originate,
  • wing it,
  • ready,
  • write,
  • formulate,
  • fake it,
  • fix,
  • improvise,
  • frame,
  • whip up,
  • fictionalize,
  • mingle,
  • construct,
  • prepare,
  • fashion.
  •masquerade (verb)
  • frolic,
  • attitudinize,
  • posture,
  • revel,
  • pass for,
  • pass as.
  •pettifog (verb)
  • niggle,
  • pick to pieces,
  • nitpick.
  •presume (verb)
  • count on,
  • premise,
  • jump the gun,
  • trust,
  • be afraid,
  • bank on,
  • posit,
  • depend,
  • rely,
  • presuppose,
  • take it,
  • consider.
  •pretend (verb)
  • claim,
  • malinger,
  • fake out,
  • pass oneself off as,
  • make as if,
  • be hypocritical,
  • playact,
  • counterfeit,
  • put up a front,
  • profess,
  • reproduce,
  • allege,
  • represent,
  • purport,
  • whitewash,
  • put on airs,
  • play,
  • make up,
  • masquerade,
  • pose,
  • fudge,
  • assume,
  • fool,
  • make out like,
  • fish,
  • affect,
  • make out,
  • feign,
  • bluff,
  • let on,
  • hoodwink,
  • deceive,
  • imitate,
  • portray,
  • simulate,
  • mislead,
  • pass off,
  • jive,
  • delude,
  • suppose,
  • make believe,
  • sucker,
  • dissimulate,
  • dupe,
  • sham,
  • cozen,
  • be deceitful,
  • beguile,
  • lay claim,
  • jazz,
  • put on an act,
  • impersonate,
  • stonewall,
  • claim falsely,
  • imagine,
  • act,
  • put on a front,
  • mimic,
  • put on,
  • assume the role,
  • cheat,
  • shuck and jive,
  • dissemble.
  •profess (verb)
  • asseverate,
  • announce,
  • croon,
  • spout,
  • depose,
  • proclaim,
  • soapbox,
  • open up,
  • vouch,
  • swear on bible,
  • sing,
  • maintain,
  • say so,
  • talk big,
  • blow hot air,
  • certify,
  • confess,
  • spiel,
  • state,
  • own up,
  • Constate,
  • admit,
  • stump,
  • avouch,
  • get on soapbox,
  • aver,
  • come out,
  • get off chest,
  • avow,
  • own,
  • confirm,
  • affirm,
  • cross heart,
  • swear up and down,
  • acknowledge.
  •purport (verb)
  • convey,
  • betoken,
  • express,
  • imply,
  • denote,
  • indicate,
  • point to,
  • pose as,
  • intend,
  • import,
  • signify.
  •quibble (verb)
  • flip-flop,
  • make a big thing about,
  • hassle,
  • spar,
  • talk back,
  • put up an argument,
  • criticize,
  • argue over,
  • catch at straws,
  • squabble,
  • wrangle,
  • altercate,
  • have at it,
  • Paralogize,
  • nit-pick,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • hem and haw,
  • bicker,
  • carp,
  • pettifog,
  • argufy,
  • set to,
  • evade,
  • dispute,
  • split hairs,
  • hypercriticize.
  •seem (verb)
  • intimate,
  • hint,
  • give the idea of,
  • sound,
  • give the feeling of,
  • look to be,
  • look as if,
  • create the impression,
  • strike one as being,
  • sound like,
  • have the appearance of,
  • have the aspects of,
  • have the earmarks of,
  • insinuate,
  • be suggestive of,
  • show every sign of,
  • make a show of,
  • convey the impression,
  • have the features of,
  • look,
  • have the qualities of.
  •sham (verb)
  • create,
  • do a number,
  • play possum.
  •suppose (verb)
  • brainstorm,
  • have a hunch,
  • view,
  • take as gospel truth,
  • dare-say,
  • regard,
  • have sneaking suspicion,
  • grant,
  • swear by,
  • accept,
  • take stock in,
  • understand,
  • spark.
  •surmise (verb)
  • venture a guess,
  • risk assuming.

Antonyms for Pre-tending:

• adj.

  • hypothetical
    certain, factual, truthful, proven, sure, real, definite, confirmed, proved, measured, reliable, calculated.
  • loafing
    active, toiling, energetic.

• n.

  • ostentation
    dullness, reservation, simplicity, truth, quiet, hiding, plainness, concealment, ordinariness, modesty.

• v.

  • act
    cease, abstain, discontinue, fail, direct, halt, prevent, refrain, hesitate, give up, idle.
  • assume
    leave, doubt, let alone, not believe, not do, not take.
  • bluff
    protect, come clean, support.
  • claim
    answer, question, forsake, reject, hide, desert, quit, conceal, give, abandon, repudiate, disclaim, disbelieve.
  • conjecture
    prove, measure, misunderstand, know, calculate.
  • disguise
    divulge, disclose, let out, open, expose, show, unmask, lay bare, tell, represent, uncover.
  • evade
    clear up, accept, encounter, take on, meet, release, stay, organize, confront, help, aid, remain, explain, face, order, enlighten.
  • fabricate
    wreck, destroy, ruin, demolish, break.
  • guess
    ignore, wonder, refuse, neglect.
  • imitate
    disregard, clash.
  • invent
    steal.
  • kid
    be serious.
  • make believe
    live reality.
  • make up
    be real, disagree.
  • pettifog
    give in.
  • presume
    forget, distrust.
  • pretend
    differ, tell truth, be original, deny, reveal, be honest, oppose, stop, reverse.
  • profess
    contradict, dispute, disown, disavow, invalidate, renounce, be quiet.
  • quibble
    agree, concur, approve.
  • suppose
    misconceive, disallow.