260 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹɪtˈɛndɪŋ], [ pɹɪtˈɛndɪŋ], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for pretending:

• hypothetical (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• act (noun)
• acting (noun)
• feigning (noun)
• ostentation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• imitating (verb)
• pretending (verb)
• other synonyms
• joking
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for pretending

Hypernyms for pretending

Hyponyms for pretending

Synonyms for Pretending:

• adj.

  • hypothetical (adjective)
  • more conjecturable,
  • most presupposed,
  • hypo thetical,
  • most refutable,
  • pre supposed,
  • more refutable,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • more postulated,
  • in definite,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • most postulated,
  • un-confirmed,
  • most concocted,
  • most contestable,
  • more pretending,
  • most stochastic,
  • un confirmed,
  • more concocted,
  • more stochastic,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • most conjecturable,
  • pre-supposed,
  • most pretending,
  • more presupposed,
  • in-definite,
  • more contestable,
  • in determinate.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • provisory,
  • unconfirmed,
  • Conjecturable,
  • contestable,
  • stochastic,
  • refutable,
  • insincere,
  • hypothetical,
  • Postulated,
  • putative,
  • loafing.

• n.

  • act (noun)
  • pretence,
  • feigning,
  • simulation,
  • pretense,
  • pretending.
  • acting (noun)
  • hamming,
  • stooging,
  • seemings,
  • seeming,
  • characterization,
  • Theatricals,
  • characterizations,
  • Enacting,
  • portraying,
  • posturings,
  • Imitating,
  • pantomime,
  • stagecraft,
  • pantomimes,
  • playings.
  • feigning (noun)
  • concealment,
  • covering,
  • masking,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • Shamming,
  • cheating,
  • Bluffing,
  • screening,
  • assumption.
  • ostentation (noun)
  • garishness,
  • flamboyance,
  • window-dressing,
  • grandstand play,
  • showiness.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • acting,
  • dissembling,
  • ostentation,
  • deception,
  • deceit,
  • dissimulation,
  • dishonesty.

• v.

  • imitating (verb)
  • reflecting,
  • Aping,
  • parroting,
  • copying,
  • Mimicking,
  • echoing,
  • Resembling,
  • Parodying,
  • replicating,
  • flattering,
  • Paralleling,
  • Emulating,
  • miming,
  • repeating,
  • Simulating,
  • Mirroring,
  • mocking,
  • Duplicating.
  • pretending (verb)
  • falsifying,
  • affecting,
  • Deceiving,
  • staging,
  • Impersonating,
  • posing,
  • showing,
  • faking,
  • Defrauding,
  • Disguising,
  • forging,
  • Claiming,
  • Masquerading.

• Other synonyms:

  • joking
  • Fooling.
  • Other relevant words:
  • make believe.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • fashion,
  • contending,
  • pattern,
  • clearing,
  • perfidious,
  • advancing,
  • feint,
  • Mouthing,
  • presume,
  • copy,
  • pretension,
  • example,
  • scoring,
  • Impressing,
  • realising,
  • bullshitting,
  • Cloaking,
  • Realizing,
  • Alleging,
  • Enunciating,
  • adopt,
  • move,
  • Defecating,
  • mysterious,
  • cooking,
  • fabricate,
  • fake,
  • professing,
  • excuse,
  • lying,
  • pretentiousness,
  • assuming,
  • representing,
  • mould,
  • acquire,
  • Kidding,
  • fixing,
  • Opining,
  • Imagining,
  • Tricking,
  • make-believe,
  • Producing,
  • assumed,
  • unpretending,
  • bear,
  • untruthful,
  • Impacting,
  • affect,
  • malingering,
  • pseudo,
  • fakery,
  • deceive,
  • Inferring,
  • regarding,
  • false pretension,
  • Attaining,
  • Establishing,
  • false pretense,
  • sanctimonious,
  • computer simulation,
  • affectation,
  • piddling,
  • Constituting,
  • reenact,
  • Puddling,
  • Inventing,
  • Earning,
  • Maintaining,
  • Seducing,
  • two-faced,
  • roleplaying,
  • sham,
  • form,
  • inducing,
  • pretend to be,
  • dissimulating,
  • hypocrisy,
  • pissing,
  • Preparing,
  • Approximating,
  • dress,
  • Double dealing,
  • peeing,
  • model,
  • Gaining,
  • guessing,
  • guise,
  • Estimating,
  • cheat,
  • Confessing,
  • playacting,
  • underhand,
  • pharisaic,
  • pretext,
  • untrustworthy,
  • Venturing,
  • figure,
  • involve,
  • conceding,
  • Feigner,
  • Broaching,
  • Forming,
  • dissimulate,
  • Creating,
  • Shaming,
  • Constructing,
  • dishonest,
  • impersonation,
  • image,
  • arrogate,
  • feigned,
  • dissemble,
  • playing,
  • play,
  • crapping,
  • moving,
  • mannerism,
  • treacherous,
  • judging,
  • deceitful,
  • naming,
  • Nominating,
  • urinating,
  • causing,
  • hypocritical,
  • wear,
  • mold,
  • aspect,
  • feign,
  • reaching,
  • Gauging,
  • misrepresenting,
  • bulling,
  • Behaving,
  • pretend,
  • accept,
  • readying,
  • touching,
  • mendacious,
  • assume,
  • Involving,
  • appearance,
  • false,
  • deceptive,
  • simulate,
  • Hazarding,
  • reckoning,
  • FALSE CLAIM.

Paraphrases for Pretending:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    pretend.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    make-believe.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fake, seeming.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    acting, appearing, arguing, assembling, asserting, assuming, believing, bringing, communicating, complaining, contending, conveying, facing, forging, getting, insisting, letting, living, loading, looking, moving, passing, play, playing, posing, protesting, pushing, putting, saying, seeking, sending, setting, shifting, spreading, switching, telling, thinking, trusting, trying, wanting, wearing, wishing, Affirming, Aiming, Alleging, Attempting, Bluffing, Claiming, Declaring, Expressing, Masquerading, Migrating, Resembling, Shamming, Transforming, Commenting, Purporting, Stating, Submitting, Suggesting, underlining, demonstrating, faking.

Hypernym for Pretending:

• n.

  • act
    affectedness, charade, pose, appearance, pretend, mannerism, show, affectation, masquerade, make-believe.

Hyponym for Pretending:

• n.

  • act
    dissimulation, deception, deceit, dissembling.