Definition for Pretending:

• Making professions, pretentious. Hence pretendingly adv.

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.

• 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.

• 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:

  •adj.
  • hypothetical,
  • insincere,
  • provisory,
  • putative,
  • stochastic,
  • unconfirmed,
  • Postulated,
  • contestable,
  • loafing,
  • refutable,
  • Conjecturable.
  •n.
  • acting,
  • deceit,
  • deception,
  • dishonesty,
  • dissembling,
  • dissimulation,
  • ostentation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • make believe.

Paraphrases for Pretending:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    pretend.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    make-believe.

• Independent

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

Pretending Sentence Examples:

• Have you only been pretending?

• I proposed to board her, pretending I was looking for a friend, and come on shore from her, so that anyone in Lisbon who chose to be curious would think I had landed straight from Portuguese Africa.

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.