Definition for Pretender:

• ( Eng. Hist.) The name applied to the princes of the Stuart family who laid claim to the English Crown after the revolution of 1688. The line was closed ( 1807) with the death of the Cardinal of York, who styled himself Henry IX.

Synonyms for Pretender:

• n.

  •
  • accession,
  • dethrone,
  • the crown,
  • abdicate,
  • depose,
  • coronation,
  • accede,
  • court,
  • commoner,
  • crown.
  •
  • true.
  •
  • owned.
  •amateur (noun)
  • dabbler.
  •charlatan (noun)
  • pre-tenders,
  • pre-tender,
  • pre tender,
  • rip-off artists,
  • rip off artists,
  • pre tenders,
  • ripoff artists,
  • rip off artist.
  •cheat (noun)
  • connivers,
  • de-coy,
  • double dealers,
  • doubledealers,
  • double crosser,
  • de coys,
  • doubledealer,
  • double-dealers,
  • confidence operators,
  • de coy,
  • doublecrosser,
  • de-coys.
  •dabbler (noun)
  • novices,
  • trifler,
  • Non-professional,
  • tinkerers,
  • tinkerer,
  • potterer.
  •dissembler (noun)
  • dissembler.
  •fake (noun)
  • fourflushers,
  • four flushers,
  • pseudi,
  • pre tense,
  • re productions,
  • pre-tense,
  • makebelieve,
  • four-flushers,
  • pre tenses,
  • re-productions,
  • re production,
  • puton,
  • four flusher,
  • gold bricks,
  • re-production,
  • junques.
  •faker (noun)
  • coiner,
  • coiners.
  •fraud (noun)
  • rogue.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • playactor,
  • Pharisees,
  • smoothies,
  • pharisee,
  • lip server,
  • casuists,
  • casuist,
  • Dissimulator,
  • wolf in sheep's clothing,
  • two-face,
  • tartuffe,
  • dissemblers,
  • hypocrite,
  • two-timer,
  • backslider,
  • smoothie,
  • Attitudinizer,
  • backsliders,
  • sophists,
  • sophist.
  •person (noun)
  • pretender.
  •phoney (noun)
  • phoney.
  •phony (noun)
  • actor.
  •pretender (noun)
  • sham,
  • phony,
  • role player,
  • pseudo,
  • pseud.
  •quack (noun)
  • bunco artist,
  • flimflammers,
  • quacksalvers,
  • bunco artists.
  •rascal (noun)
  • dis graces,
  • re-probate,
  • re-probates,
  • cardsharps,
  • re probate,
  • dis-graces,
  • dis grace,
  • good for nothing,
  • dis-grace,
  • mischief maker.
  •snob (noun)
  • snoot,
  • stiff neck,
  • namedropper,
  • smarty pants.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • poser,
  • Claimer.
  •
  • mountebank.
  •charlatan
  • mocker.
  •copyist
  • imitator.
  •parvenu
  • upstart.

Paraphrases for Pretender:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    suitor, comedian.

Pretender Sentence Examples:

• He adds: Then he despises pretenders and charlatans of all sorts, while he is himself a pretender, as all men are who assume a character which does not belong to them and affect to be something which they are all the time conscious they are not in reality.

• The story of the brave and able pretender, Sigurd Slembe, in his struggle with the vain and mean - spirited king, Harold Gille, is the theme of the dramatic trilogy.

Hyponym for Pretender:

• n.

  • person
    claimant.