Synonyms and Antonyms of pretend

the enactment of a pretense (noun.act)

make believe with the intent to deceive (verb.communication)

behave unnaturally or affectedly (verb.creation)

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation (verb.communication)

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like (verb.communication)

state insincerely (verb.communication)

lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria (adj.all)

represent falsely (verb.communication)

demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to (verb.possession)

talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion (verb.communication)

play a role or part (verb.creation)

assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing (verb.communication)

the act of giving a false appearance (noun.act)

make a pretence of (verb.creation)

to pretend to be dead (verb.communication)

pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer (verb.communication)

speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths (verb.communication)

articulate silently; form words with the lips only (verb.communication)

make a prediction about; tell in advance (verb.communication)

imagine to be the case or true or probable (verb.communication)

pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it (verb.communication)

behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself (verb.body)

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like (verb.communication)

make believe with the intent to deceive (verb.communication)

a manifestation of insincerity (noun.communication)

imaginative intellectual play (noun.cognition)

the act of giving a false appearance (noun.act)

something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be (noun.artifact)

pretending with intention to deceive (noun.communication)

a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives (noun.person)

a person who makes deceitful pretenses (noun.person)

someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity (noun.person)

a false or unsupportable quality (noun.attribute)

the advancing of a claim (noun.communication)

a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) (noun.person)

an estimate based on little or no information (noun.cognition)

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence (noun.communication)

a person who guesses (noun.person)

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another (noun.phenomenon)

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like (verb.communication)

imagined as in a play (adj.all)