Pretend синоним

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1. pretend

   The distinctive idea of assume is to take by one’s own independent volition, whether well or ill, rightfully or wrongfully. One may accept an obligation or assume an authority that properly belongs to him, or he may assume an obligation or indebtedness that could not be required of him. He may assume authority or office that is his right; if he assumes what does not belong to him, he is said to arrogate or usurp it. A man may usurp the substance of power in the most unpretending way; what he arrogates to himself he assumes with a haughty and overbearing manner. One assumes the robes or insignia of office by putting them on, with or without right. If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes. What a debater postulates he openly states and takes for granted without proof; what he assumes he may take for granted without mention. A favorite trick of the sophist is quietly to assume as true what would at once be challenged if expressly stated. What a man claims he asserts his right to take; what he assumes he takes.

   Synonyms:
   accept, affect, appropriate, arrogate, assume, claim, feign, postulate, presume, put on, take, usurp

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. pretend

   Synonyms:
   feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess

   Antonyms:
   verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute

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1. make-believe, pretendadjective

   the enactment of a pretense

   «it was just pretend»

   Synonyms:
   pretense, pretence, make-believe

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

2. make-believe, pretendverb

   imagined as in a play

   «the make-believe world of theater»; «play money»; «dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish»

   Synonyms:
   make-believe

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

3. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissembleverb

   make believe with the intent to deceive

   «He feigned that he was ill»; «He shammed a headache»

   Synonyms:
   bear upon, make believe, mask, touch, cloak, touch on, strike, dissemble, move, assume, involve, venture, simulate, impress, affect, hazard, feign, act, impact, sham, guess, profess, bear on, regard, make

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

4. dissemble, pretend, actverb

   behave unnaturally or affectedly

   «She’s just acting»

   Synonyms:
   dissemble, make believe, play, represent, mask, move, work, cloak, venture, roleplay, playact, affect, hazard, feign, do, act, sham, guess, profess, behave, make, act as

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

5. pretendverb

   put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

   «pretend the title of King»

   Synonyms:
   act, make, guess, affect, feign, dissemble, hazard, make believe, profess, sham, venture

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

6. guess, venture, pretend, hazardverb

   put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

   «I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again»; «I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong»

   Synonyms:
   guess, run a risk, imagine, infer, opine, adventure, gauge, dissemble, make believe, gamble, sham, chance, reckon, suppose, embark, venture, estimate, affect, hazard, think, jeopardize, stake, act, take chances, approximate, profess, judge, take a chance, risk, make, feign

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

7. make, pretend, make believeverb

   represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

   «She makes like an actress»

   Synonyms:
   earn, create, take in, pass water, dissemble, relieve oneself, score, lay down, pull in, progress to, prepare, get, stool, make up, hit, arrive at, cook, attain, fix, establish, seduce, defecate, urinate, work, wee, puddle, reach, take, have, pee-pee, shit, stimulate, pee, get to, construct, act, throw, hazard, form, gain, micturate, take a shit, venture, cause, realise, do, give, crap, affect, take a leak, sham, induce, hold, clear, make water, spend a penny, produce, nominate, wee-wee, ready, piss, name, guess, take a crap, draw, bring in, make believe, constitute, feign, realize, piddle, profess, ca-ca, build, make

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

8. profess, pretendverb

   state insincerely

   «He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt»; «She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber»; «She pretends to be an expert on wine»

   Synonyms:
   act, make, feign, confess, affect, dissemble, hazard, concede, make believe, profess, sham, venture, guess

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Claim
   • Speculate

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1. Prince Harry:

   I’m somewhat ashamed of the way that I dealt with it, and of course, because of the system that we were in and the responsibilities and the duties that we had, we had a quick cuddle and then we had to get changed to jump in a convoy with a police escort and drive to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event. Then step out into a wall of cameras and pretend as though everything’s OK.

2. Jill Pederson:

   My mom would clean it every week and I would tag along and get up there and pretend to preach to an invisible crowd, in a small community you are all family and that church kept everyone connected in some way and that is what will be missed the most.

3. Trent England:

   Michigan would clearly be a loser under a national popular vote just for the reason that they get a lot of attention from candidates, obviously, that would change with a national popular vote. The National Popular Vote campaign likes to pretend every state would be a swing state and every state would get that much attention. The only way that’s really possible is if the political campaigns raise and spend 100 times more money than they raise and spend today. So Michigan would lose big time.

4. Terry McAuliffe:

   I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: Go home, you are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. … You pretend that you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot.

5. John Fetterman:

   Pretend I want to go to Wegman’s, but I’m actually in a Redner’s, but I would tell you I’m shopping in a Wegner’s.

• زعم, ادعىArabic
• fingir, fer veureCatalan, Valencian
• předstíratCzech
• foregiveDanish
• vorgebenGerman
• fingirSpanish
• väittää, teeskennelläFinnish
• faire semblant, prétendre à, prétendre, feindreFrench
• leig airScottish Gaelic
• fingereItalian
• 装う, 振りをする, 見せ掛けるJapanese
• 체하다Korean
• fingo, simuloLatin
• whakataruna, whakatakuneMāori
• berpura-pura, berlagakMalay
• voorwenden, doen alsof, veinzenDutch
• udawaćPolish
• fingirPortuguese
• pretinde, prefaceRomanian
• делать вид, притворяться, сделать вид, притворитьсяRussian
• låtsasSwedish
• удавати, вдаватиUkrainian
• دکھاواUrdu

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