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:

  •joking
  • Fooling.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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
    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.

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.