Synonyms for Pretend:

adj.
• disguised (adjective)
- dis-guised,
- more pretend,
- most incog,
- under-cover,
- dis guised,
- fakest,
- more incog,
- most pretend,
- in cog,
- in-cog.
• fictional (adjective)
- most fabricated.
• fictitious (adjective)
- fictive.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- masked,
- pseudo,
- pretended,
- not legit,
- not real,
- fictional,
- not genuine,
- under cover,
- not kosher,
- make-believe,
- spurious,
- sham,
- Incog.
• pretended (adjective)
- Imposturous,
- Impostrous.
• pseudo (adjective)
- more imitation,
- most imitation,
- most pirate,
- more pirate.
• sham (adjective)
- dummiest,
- un truer,
- un truest,
- un-truest,
- dummier,
- mis leading,
- most plaster,
- un-truer,
- mis-leading,
- more plaster.
• spurious (adjective)
- ungenuine,
- bummest,
- un-authentic,
- more unauthentic,
- un genuine,
- un-genuine,
- unauthentic,
- more faked,
- most ungenuine,
- un authentic,
- most unauthentic,
- un-real,
- most faked,
- more ungenuine.
n.
- keep up,
- put on airs,
- sail under false colors,
- allege,
- let on,
- mislead.
- big,
- choo-choo,
- cold,
- reproduce,
- bang,
- birdie,
- bunny,
- cross,
- boo-boo,
- bow-wow.
- honest.
- try.
• act (noun)
- pretend.
• affect (noun)
- affect.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- fakery,
- simulation,
- pretence,
- pretending,
- camouflage,
- feigning,
- lie,
- Pharisaism,
- hypocriticalness,
- coverup,
- pretense.
• sham (noun)
- hypo criticalness,
- hypo criticalnesses,
- pre-text,
- hypo-criticalnesses,
- pre-tense,
- pre-texts,
- fakeries,
- hypo-criticalness,
- pre text,
- pre texts,
- pre tenses,
- pseudi,
- pre tense,
- hypocriticalnesses.
v.
• act (verb)
- brought down the house,
- says one's piece,
- says piece,
- playing role,
- bringing down the house,
- did a turn,
- doest turn,
- said piece,
- are on,
- say one piece,
- wast on,
- doing a turn,
- does a turn,
- pre-tend,
- doing turn,
- do turn,
- dost turn,
- says ones piece,
- say piece,
- brings down the house,
- doeth turn,
- laying egg,
- saying one's piece,
- plays part,
- plays gig,
- pre-tending,
- said one piece,
- putting it over,
- puts over,
- re-presenting,
- plays role,
- laying an egg,
- says one piece,
- re presents,
- pre tend,
- was on,
- pre tending,
- pre tends,
- lays an egg,
- doth a turn,
- re presenting,
- said ones piece,
- tread boards,
- bring down house,
- re-presented,
- is on,
- doth turn,
- saying ones piece,
- re presented,
- playing part,
- takes part,
- saying piece,
- does turn,
- lays egg,
- say ones piece,
- being on,
- lay egg,
- playing gig,
- brings down house,
- doest a turn,
- said one's piece,
- re hearse,
- trod the boards,
- re hearses,
- were on,
- re-presents,
- re present,
- played role,
- wert on,
- Re-present,
- played gig,
- re-hearses,
- making debut,
- bringing down house,
- makes debut,
- played part,
- brought down house,
- dost a turn,
- laid an egg,
- laid egg,
- am on,
- did turn,
- doeth a turn,
- didst a turn,
- re-hearse,
- saying one piece,
- didst turn,
- made debut,
- puts it over,
- putting over,
- pre-tends.
• bluff (verb)
- be guiles,
- de lude,
- de-frauds,
- psyching out,
- faking out,
- be-trays,
- Illuded,
- mis leads,
- be tray,
- illudes,
- mis lead,
- de-fraud,
- be-guile,
- fakes out,
- be trays,
- be-guiles,
- Illuding,
- de-lude,
- de frauds,
- buncoing,
- mis-lead,
- buncoed,
- mis-leads,
- psychs out,
- be guile,
- buncos,
- de-ludes,
- de fraud,
- de ludes,
- be-tray.
• claim (verb)
- de fending,
- hast dibs something,
- ex-acted,
- re quire,
- ex acts,
- had dibs on something,
- laid claim to,
- de-clares,
- held out for,
- up-held,
- re quiring,
- ex act,
- ex-acts,
- hadst dibs on something,
- re-quires,
- up holds,
- be-lieve,
- laying claim to,
- de fend,
- up-holding,
- haddest dibs on something,
- up-holds,
- re-quiring,
- pop question,
- re quires,
- ex-acting,
- be lieve,
- de clares,
- haddest dibs something,
- have dibs something,
- having dibs on something,
- stakes out,
- holds out for,
- ex acted,
- holding out for,
- up-hold,
- de fends,
- ex acting,
- hits up,
- having dibs something,
- re-quire,
- de clare,
- de-fended,
- up holding,
- up held,
- has dibs on something,
- staked out,
- de-fending,
- lays claim to,
- hath dibs on something,
- de-clare,
- hath dibs something,
- ex-act,
- re-quired,
- had dibs something,
- hitting up,
- has dibs something,
- hast dibs on something,
- up hold,
- hadst dibs something,
- de fended,
- de-fend,
- re quired,
- de-fends.
• conjecture (verb)
- guesstimating,
- hazards a guess,
- took stab,
- hazard guess,
- takes a shot,
- hazarding guess,
- guesstimates,
- taking shot,
- hazards guess,
- take stab,
- takes stab,
- hazarded a guess,
- took a shot,
- taking stab,
- taking a shot,
- taking a stab,
- took shot,
- took a stab,
- takes a stab,
- hazarded guess,
- takes shot,
- hazarding a guess,
- take shot.
• counterfeit (verb)
- carboned,
- phonied up,
- made money,
- doest like,
- phonies up,
- acted like,
- phonying up,
- phonied,
- makes like,
- statted,
- carboning,
- circulating bad money,
- going like,
- doing like,
- didst like,
- phonying,
- acting like,
- mimeos,
- acts like,
- mimeoed,
- did like,
- doeth like,
- made like,
- dost like,
- making like,
- statting,
- circulates bad money,
- dittoing,
- doth like,
- mimeoing,
- circulated bad money,
- goes like,
- does like,
- went like.
• creation (verb)
- dissemble.
• disguise (verb)
- dis guise,
- put on front,
- co loring,
- putting front,
- dis guising,
- puts up front,
- doctors up,
- put up front,
- putting on false front,
- puts false front,
- puts on a front,
- puts on a false front,
- re-does,
- glosses over,
- putting a front,
- doctoring up,
- putting a false front,
- co-loring,
- be lied,
- puts front,
- re-did,
- puts on front,
- puts a false front,
- wearing cheaters,
- re-done,
- puts on false front,
- dis-guise,
- putting on a false front,
- puts a front,
- dis-guising,
- re does,
- put false front,
- re done,
- wears cheaters,
- putting false front,
- put front,
- doctored up,
- re did,
- putting up front,
- putting on a front,
- be-lying,
- wore cheaters,
- puts up a front,
- put a front,
- glossing over,
- dis guises,
- be lying,
- putting up a front,
- re-doing,
- dis-guises,
- re doing,
- put a false front,
- be-lied,
- putting on front.
• dissimulate (verb)
• evade (verb)
- lead a merry chase,
- gives runaround,
- led a merry chase,
- de clines,
- giving the runaround,
- gave runaround,
- by pass,
- sneaking away,
- slipped out,
- leads on merry chase,
- beg question,
- kept distance,
- lead on merry chase,
- beating around bush,
- steers clear of,
- gotten around,
- led on merry chase,
- laying low,
- sneaks away,
- begs the question,
- steered clear of,
- keeps distance,
- gives the runaround,
- gets around,
- de-cline,
- beats around bush,
- begged the question,
- gat around,
- led merry chase,
- fended off,
- lays low,
- passing up,
- begs question,
- slipping out,
- snuck away,
- lead merry chase,
- leads merry chase,
- leading merry chase,
- leading on a merry chase,
- leading on merry chase,
- by passed,
- de-clines,
- gave the runaround,
- leads a merry chase,
- passes up,
- begging question,
- by passes,
- leads on a merry chase,
- giving runaround,
- slips out,
- slipt out,
- keeping distance,
- by passing,
- led on a merry chase,
- de cline,
- begged question,
- leading a merry chase,
- got around,
- sneaked away,
- give runaround.
• fabricate (verb)
- de vising,
- mis represent,
- de-vised,
- mis represented,
- de-vising,
- mis-represented,
- mis represents,
- mis representing,
- mis-represents,
- trumps up,
- de vise,
- de vised,
- trumping up,
- de-vise,
- mis-represent,
- mis-representing.
• fake, falsify (verb)
- cheat,
- lay claim,
- fish,
- fool,
- hoodwink,
- whitewash,
- be deceitful,
- impersonate,
- feign,
- delude,
- dupe,
- jazz,
- cozen,
- stonewall,
- assume,
- simulate,
- pass oneself off as,
- be hypocritical,
- fudge,
- sucker,
- claim falsely,
- deceive,
- beguile,
- put on.
• fool (verb)
- putting one over on,
- played a trick on,
- juking,
- out-foxing,
- out foxes,
- plays a trick on,
- puts one over on,
- out-fox,
- juked,
- playing a trick on,
- played trick on,
- out foxing,
- playing trick on,
- out foxed,
- out-foxed,
- sucking in,
- out fox,
- sucks in,
- out-foxes,
- plays trick on.
• guess (verb)
- de-duces,
- de-duce,
- going out on a limb,
- taking shot at,
- thinks likely,
- goes out limb,
- takes a stab at,
- jumping to a conclusion,
- go out a limb,
- going out limb,
- go out limb,
- sizes up,
- dare says,
- happening upon,
- took a shot at,
- de duces,
- jumping conclusion,
- dare said,
- took a stab at,
- jumped to a conclusion,
- jump a conclusion,
- happen up on,
- thought likely,
- happens upon,
- happened up on,
- went out on a limb,
- lumped it,
- going out on limb,
- goes out a limb,
- going out a limb,
- jumping a conclusion,
- lumps it,
- jumping to conclusion,
- take shot at,
- thinking likely,
- goes out on limb,
- takes shot at,
- jump conclusion,
- takes stab at,
- jumps to conclusion,
- dare saying,
- takes a shot at,
- took shot at,
- jumps to a conclusion,
- jumped to conclusion,
- happens up on,
- went out limb,
- jump to conclusion,
- lumping it,
- de duce,
- sized up,
- took stab at,
- went out on limb,
- happening up on,
- take stab at,
- pre-dict,
- went out a limb,
- jumps a conclusion,
- taking a stab at,
- jumped conclusion,
- jumps conclusion,
- goes out on a limb,
- pre dict,
- taking a shot at,
- taking stab at,
- jumped a conclusion.
• imitate (verb)
- copy,
- ape,
- parody,
- repeat,
- flatter,
- mock,
- emulate,
- replicate,
- echo,
- ditto,
- mirror,
- reflect,
- mimic,
- duplicate,
- portray,
- parrot,
- resemble,
- parallel.
• invent (verb)
- creates out thin air,
- telling white lie,
- mis-stating,
- told untruth,
- tells a white lie,
- created out of thin air,
- tells white lie,
- telling untruth,
- told white lie,
- thinking up,
- creating out of thin air,
- in vented,
- mis-stated,
- in-vents,
- in vents,
- tells untruth,
- created out thin air,
- create out thin air,
- creates out of thin air,
- mis stating,
- in venting,
- in-venting,
- mis-states,
- mis stated,
- mis state,
- thinks up,
- in vent,
- in-vent,
- mis states,
- telling a white lie,
- creating out thin air,
- mis-state,
- in-vented,
- told a white lie.
• kid (verb)
- making sport of,
- made sport of.
• make believe (verb)
- acted as though,
- acted as if,
- letting like,
- making as if,
- let like,
- letted like,
- acts as though,
- playing the part,
- acts as if,
- acting as if,
- lets on like,
- makes as if,
- lets like,
- acting as though,
- made as if,
- letting on like,
- plays the part,
- letted on like.
• make up (verb)
- re adies,
- pre pare,
- Fabulizing,
- improvving,
- fakes it,
- pre-pare,
- pre-paring,
- improvs,
- Fabulized,
- pre pares,
- pre pared,
- faking it,
- pre paring,
- faked it,
- storifying,
- re-adies,
- fabulizes,
- storifies,
- improvved,
- pre-pared.
• masquerade (verb)
- passed for,
- passes as,
- passes for,
- passing as,
- passing for.
• mime (verb)
- panto mime,
- panto mimed,
- panto miming,
- panto-miming,
- panto-mime,
- panto mimes,
- panto-mimes,
- panto-mimed.
• pettifog (verb)
- picked pieces,
- picking pieces,
- picking to pieces,
- picked to pieces,
- picks pieces,
- pick pieces,
- picks to pieces.
• play the part of (verb)
- pose.
• presume (verb)
- wast afraid,
- pre suppose,
- de-pending,
- pre-supposing,
- art afraid,
- re-lied,
- were afraid,
- pre-mise,
- was afraid,
- pre supposing,
- de pend,
- de pending,
- am afraid,
- de-pends,
- pre-suppose,
- re-lying,
- pre-supposes,
- pre mise,
- jump gun,
- de-pended,
- are afraid,
- de pends,
- de pended,
- pre-mises,
- pre supposed,
- pre-supposed,
- re lying,
- wert afraid,
- pre supposes,
- pre mises,
- being afraid,
- de-pend,
- re lied.
• pretend (verb)
- defraud,
- show,
- stage,
- cover,
- falsify,
- forge.
• profess (verb)
- de pose,
- gets off chest,
- pro fess,
- says so,
- de posing,
- gat on soapbox,
- swore up and down,
- pro-claiming,
- sware bible,
- got chest,
- gat chest,
- sware up down,
- sware up and down,
- de-posing,
- got off chest,
- pro claiming,
- pro-claims,
- de-posed,
- blowing hot air,
- swears and down,
- pro fesses,
- gotten chest,
- soapboxed,
- talked big,
- crossed heart,
- sware on bible,
- swears on bible,
- getting on soapbox,
- pro claim,
- gotten soapbox,
- get chest,
- swearing bible,
- gat soapbox,
- talks big,
- getting soapbox,
- swears down,
- swearing on bible,
- get soapbox,
- constating,
- gets on soapbox,
- getting off chest,
- soapboxing,
- swore and down,
- constates,
- blows hot air,
- saying so,
- swore bible,
- swearing up and down,
- pro-fesses,
- pro claimed,
- swears bible,
- swears up down,
- swears up and down,
- swear bible,
- swore up down,
- pro claims,
- gotten on soapbox,
- got soapbox,
- swearing down,
- swearing up down,
- blew hot air,
- swear and down,
- de posed,
- swear down,
- getting chest,
- crosses heart,
- gets chest,
- pro-fess,
- crossing heart,
- swore down,
- gat off chest,
- sware down,
- swore on bible,
- said so,
- got on soapbox,
- de-pose,
- opens up,
- gotten off chest,
- talking big,
- constated,
- gets soapbox,
- sware and down,
- swear up down,
- swearing and down.
• purport (verb)
- posed as,
- de-noting,
- de notes,
- in tends,
- be tokening,
- in-tending,
- poses as,
- ex-press,
- points to,
- ex pressing,
- be-token,
- be-tokening,
- be token,
- de noting,
- in tend,
- in-tends,
- in tending,
- de-noted,
- de-note,
- de noted,
- be tokened,
- be-tokens,
- be-tokened,
- ex-pressing,
- ex press,
- in tended,
- in-tended,
- posing as,
- ex pressed,
- de-notes,
- be tokens,
- de note,
- in-tend.
• put on an act (verb)
- put an act,
- put act.
• quibble (verb)
- catch straws,
- made a big thing about,
- puts up an argument,
- hyper-criticize,
- flip-flopped,
- hyper-criticized,
- putting an argument,
- haddest it,
- having it,
- makes big thing about,
- had at it,
- nit pick,
- hyper criticizes,
- hadst at it,
- hypercriticizing,
- caught straws,
- haddest at it,
- argued over,
- putting up an argument,
- has at it,
- hath it,
- talks back,
- hath at it,
- paralogizes,
- put an argument,
- hem haw,
- having at it,
- making a big thing about,
- putting up argument,
- flipflopped,
- nit picking,
- made big thing about,
- makes a big thing about,
- hyper-criticizing,
- Paralogizing,
- flip flop,
- make big thing about,
- hyper criticize,
- hast it,
- caught at straws,
- has it,
- making big thing about,
- nit picked,
- flip flopping,
- hyper criticizing,
- nit-picks,
- putting argument,
- setting to,
- puts an argument,
- flip flopped,
- puts up argument,
- flipflopping,
- argufies,
- put argument,
- catching straws,
- hadst it,
- hast at it,
- catches straws,
- hypercriticizes,
- catches at straws,
- puts argument,
- catching at straws,
- hyper criticized,
- talked back,
- argues over,
- nit-picked,
- nit picks,
- Paralogized,
- hyper-criticizes,
- argufied,
- sets to,
- hypercriticized,
- blow hot cold.
• seem (verb)
• sham (verb)
- didst a number,
- dost number,
- doest number,
- doeth a number,
- doing a number,
- shucked and jive,
- shucking jive,
- doing number,
- doest a number,
- does a number,
- does number,
- dost a number,
- didst number,
- doth number,
- did a number,
- doth a number,
- shuck jive,
- shucks and jive,
- doeth number,
- shucking and jive,
- shucks jive,
- do number,
- did number,
- shucked jive.
• suppose (verb)
- hadst a hunch,
- has sneaking suspicion,
- under-stood,
- took as gospel truth,
- taking stock in,
- had a hunch,
- hath sneaking suspicion,
- daresaid,
- daresays,
- having a hunch,
- takes as gospel truth,
- having sneaking suspicion,
- re gards,
- haddest a hunch,
- taking as gospel truth,
- under stands,
- dare-saying,
- hast hunch,
- has hunch,
- under stand,
- daresaying,
- hadst hunch,
- takes stock in,
- under-standing,
- hath hunch,
- haddest sneaking suspicion,
- under-stands,
- dare-says,
- took stock in,
- had hunch,
- had sneaking suspicion,
- re-gard,
- haddest hunch,
- dare-said,
- under stood,
- under standing,
- hadst sneaking suspicion,
- hast sneaking suspicion,
- having hunch,
- hath a hunch.
• surmise (verb)
- risking assuming,
- risks assuming,
- ventures guess,
- sur mises,
- ventures a guess,
- venturing a guess,
- risked assuming,
- sur mise,
- ventured a guess,
- ventured guess,
- venture guess,
- venturing guess,
- sur-mises,
- sur-mise.
Other synonyms:
- act out,
- malinger,
- play along,
- tease,
- play out,
- toady,
- what if,
- simulated.
- make out,
- manmade,
- play-act,
- pass off.
- set up,
- dare.
- artificial,
- appearance.
- imitation.
- synthetic.
• act
- perform,
- stooged,
- starred,
- lay an egg,
- performs,
- bring down the house,
- make debut,
- do a turn,
- starring,
- Enacting,
- hammed,
- take part,
- be on,
- Personating,
- personate,
- portraying,
- play gig,
- Strutting,
- put it over,
- go on,
- personates,
- enact,
- say one's piece,
- play role,
- taking part,
- put over,
- Strutted,
- stooging,
- tread the boards,
- took part,
- Burlesquing,
- ham up,
- hamming,
- Personated,
- goes on,
- Burlesqued,
- play part.
• create
- make up.
• deceive
- bluff.
• fool
- play a trick on,
- chicaning,
- scammed,
- Trifled,
- sucked in,
- spoofed,
- chicaned,
- chicane,
- scamming,
- suck in,
- Foxed,
- put one over on,
- fox,
- led on,
- Juke,
- lead on,
- leads on,
- chicanes,
- fools,
- Foxing,
- put over on,
- spoofing,
- Jukes,
- Foxes,
- play trick on.
• imitate
- Caricatured,
- be like,
- looks like,
- looking like,
- reduplicating,
- follow in footsteps,
- pattern after,
- send up,
- looked like,
- Imitating,
- Replicated,
- reduplicated,
- Caricaturing,
- do likewise,
- look like,
- sent up,
- sends up,
- play a part,
- reduplicates,
- modelled after,
- playing a part,
- Emulated,
- reduplicate,
- model after.
• make-believe
- make as iforas though.
• make up
- ad lib,
- fake it,
- writes,
- ADLIB,
- Fabulize,
- Storify,
- makes up,
- made up,
- play by ear,
- storified,
- IMPROV.
• Other relevant words:
- Ragging,
- circulate bad money,
- shrouding,
- take a stab,
- funned,
- play the part,
- by-passed,
- suspected,
- posed,
- fibbing,
- staking out,
- Humbugging,
- steering clear of,
- pantomimes,
- passed as,
- Suckering,
- begging the question,
- happen upon,
- say so,
- stake out,
- take a shot,
- playact,
- covers up,
- Snowing,
- lead on a merry chase,
- act like,
- suppose,
- whitewashed,
- bunco,
- pass up,
- shies,
- put on a front,
- take a shot at,
- put on false front,
- gloss over,
- swear up and down,
- japing,
- soapbox,
- seem,
- requisitioned,
- dare say,
- Fronting,
- covered up,
- beat around bush,
- premise,
- laid low,
- double cross,
- put on act,
- guesstimated,
- doublecross,
- guesstimate,
- surmise,
- spieled,
- presume,
- get on soapbox,
- Illude,
- Humbugged,
- razzed,
- jived,
- blow hot air,
- put on a false front,
- Snowed,
- jives,
- pass as,
- by-passes,
- risk assuming,
- Parried,
- think likely,
- mimeo,
- antiquing,
- pantomime,
- soapboxes,
- pass for,
- Secreted,
- put up a front,
- owning up,
- making money,
- keep distance,
- varnish,
- getting around,
- do like,
- make sport of,
- spieling,
- happened upon,
- make fun of,
- Suckered,
- fake,
- present a false front,
- fake out,
- doctor up,
- kid,
- imitate,
- pantomimed,
- purport,
- act as if,
- cover up,
- have dibs on something,
- makes money,
- give the runaround,
- fending off,
- opened up,
- phonies,
- misstate,
- act as though,
- lied,
- go out on limb,
- play act,
- psyched out,
- be afraid,
- insist,
- took for granted,
- funning,
- Constate,
- go like,
- lump it,
- predicate,
- Postulating,
- faked out,
- owns up,
- obfuscate,
- profess,
- jump to a conclusion,
- make believe,
- act,
- tell a white lie,
- shuck and jive,
- pussyfoot,
- fathoms,
- jollied,
- cross heart,
- fabricate,
- antiqued,
- glossed over,
- passed up,
- hit up,
- jive,
- take a stab at,
- hold out for,
- covering up,
- slip out,
- dissimulate,
- own up,
- Shrouded,
- sneak away,
- is afraid,
- pantomiming,
- trump up,
- fantasizing,
- opening up,
- masquerade,
- opine,
- venture a guess,
- go out on a limb,
- beg the question,
- guessing,
- Frolicking,
- Shying,
- owned up,
- conjecture,
- By-pass,
- swear on bible,
- makes sport of,
- counterfeit,
- do a number,
- lay low,
- steer clear of,
- mime,
- present a false face,
- put on an act,
- hazard a guess,
- make money,
- get off chest,
- Jollies,
- STAT,
- think up,
- pop the question,
- make as if,
- psych out,
- disguise,
- size up,
- evade,
- guess,
- take for granted,
- japed,
- talk big,
- dittoed,
- played the part,
- jollying,
- tell untruth,
- claim,
- make like,
- let on like,
- STATS,
- taking for granted,
- takes for granted,
- fathom,
- lay claim to,
- jiving,
- get around,
- open up,
- needs,
- by-passing,
- wear cheaters,
- phony up,
- invent,
- create out of thin air,
- tell white lie.
• pettifog
- pick to pieces,
- niggle.
• posit
- posits.
• purport
- importing,
- point to,
- pose as,
- pointing to,
- pointed to.
• quibble
- altercate,
- Paralogize,
- Altercated,
- altercates,
- nit-pick,
- catch at straws,
- make a big thing about,
- have it,
- hypercriticize,
- talking back,
- talk back,
- nit-picking,
- flip-flopping,
- put up an argument,
- flipflop,
- nitpick,
- have at it,
- Altercating,
- had it,
- argue over,
- set to,
- put up argument.
• seem
- convey the impression,
- create the impression,
- show every sign of,
- sounds like,
- give the idea of,
- strike one as being,
- seeming,
- have the qualities of,
- make show of,
- have the earmarks of,
- have earmarks of,
- strike as being,
- look as if,
- have the aspects of,
- sound like,
- give the feeling of,
- be suggestive of,
- have the appearance of,
- look to be,
- sounded like,
- have the features of.
• suppose
- supposes,
- daresay,
- dare-say,
- have sneaking suspicion,
- has a hunch,
- take as gospel truth,
- take stock in,
- have a hunch.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- detain,
- fantastic,
- assert,
- let,
- be played,
- arrive at,
- fantasy,
- move,
- pettifog,
- pass water,
- be underhand,
- fancy,
- attempt,
- broach,
- faulty,
- bring in,
- conceal,
- regard,
- maybe,
- approximate,
- deceptive,
- made-up,
- cook,
- make out like,
- feigned,
- excuse,
- encroach,
- unnatural,
- endeavour,
- factitious,
- earn,
- picture,
- dramatize,
- take a leak,
- alleged,
- think,
- visionary,
- spend a penny,
- testify to,
- act as,
- imagine,
- facade,
- involve,
- have,
- wear,
- contend,
- purported,
- posture,
- dramatise,
- extend,
- pull-in,
- set forth,
- enunciate,
- replica,
- dissembling,
- crap,
- touch on,
- define,
- vindicate,
- overact,
- Falsified,
- establish,
- believe,
- appropriate,
- affected,
- stimulate,
- nominate,
- clear,
- falsehood,
- gamble,
- imaginary,
- HIT,
- invented,
- posit,
- bear upon,
- play at,
- delineate,
- behave,
- misleading,
- avow,
- phantasmic,
- create,
- draw,
- lord,
- toilet,
- forged,
- profession,
- play games,
- play,
- fictitious,
- play over,
- masquerade as,
- plead,
- construct,
- seduce,
- lay down,
- advance,
- hold,
- ideal,
- affectation,
- usurp,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- realise,
- bullshit,
- gammon,
- report,
- infer,
- take the liberty,
- hoax,
- do a bit,
- seize,
- get to,
- faithless,
- attempt to,
- pretension,
- substitute,
- give,
- DO,
- possum,
- glorified,
- prepare,
- impress,
- acquire,
- Misled,
- propose,
- take over,
- gain,
- fix,
- deem,
- strain,
- hazard,
- roleplay,
- synthesized,
- faux,
- possibly,
- mimetic,
- pee,
- take upon oneself,
- infringe,
- banter,
- relieve oneself,
- suspicious,
- make bold,
- imitative,
- bluster,
- put forward,
- guise,
- induce,
- take-in,
- reach,
- note,
- in vogue,
- hypocrisy,
- professed,
- reckon,
- coquet,
- risk,
- get,
- deceit,
- perhaps,
- disguised,
- form,
- arrogate,
- amount to,
- ersatz,
- man-made,
- propound,
- make,
- reputed,
- play possum,
- estimate,
- quibble,
- develop into,
- cloak,
- judge,
- engage in,
- works,
- so-called,
- weird,
- meretricious,
- deceitful,
- venture,
- piddle,
- outline,
- defecate,
- produce,
- constitute,
- assume the role,
- erroneous,
- fanciful,
- paint,
- phony,
- manufactured,
- cause,
- perchance,
- Fantasied,
- take on,
- put,
- strike,
- state,
- tricky,
- allow,
- attain,
- unintelligibility,
- confess,
- describe,
- build,
- challenge,
- trespass,
- dummy,
- untrue,
- make water,
- throw,
- put forth,
- misrepresent,
- impact,
- dishonest,
- dressing,
- sketch,
- concede,
- bear on,
- twit,
- realize,
- asserted,
- undertake,
- make free,
- jeopardize,
- four flush,
- joke,
- make a show of,
- deception,
- play false,
- faked,
- micturate,
- fraudulent,
- insincere,
- progress to,
- shrewd,
- seasoning,
- aim to,
- adopt,
- presupposition,
- game,
- endeavor,
- invade,
- Bulled,
- unreal,
- gauge,
- pronounce,
- maintain,
- represent,
- characterize,
- virtual,
- pretext,
- false,
- take,
- wily,
- Histrionize,
- make a pretense of,
- illusory,
- piss,
- hold out,
- act a part,
- contrived,
- bogus,
- unexpected,
- urinate,
- jest,
- depict,
- ostensible,
- sly,
- name.

How to use "Pretend" in context?

I think we all enjoy pretending. Whether it's pretending to be someone we are not, pretending we have all the answers, or just pretending the world is exactly the way we want it to be, pretending is a great way to have fun and escape from reality. But why do we like to pretend? For many people, pretending is a way to avoid the unpleasantness of the real world. It can be a way to relax or relieve stress, or it can be a way to have fun. For children, pretending is a way to explore the world and make new friends.

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- 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.

Hypernym for Pretend:

v.
- creation
  assume, sham, simulate, feign.

Hyponym for Pretend:

n.
- act
  feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation.
v.
- communication
  claim.
- possession
  lay claim, claim, arrogate.

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