Main entry: make-believe, pretend
Definition: the enactment of a pretense
Usage: it was just pretend
Definition: state insincerely
Usage: 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
Main entry: sham, dissemble, feign, pretend, affect
Definition: make believe with the intent to deceive
Usage: He feigned that he was ill; He shammed a headache
Main entry: make, make believe, pretend
Definition: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
Usage: She makes like an actress
Main entry: pretend, guess, hazard, venture
Definition: put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
Usage: I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again; I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
Main entry: dissemble, pretend, act
Definition: behave unnaturally or affectedly
Usage: She's just acting
Main entry: pretend
Definition: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
Usage: pretend the title of King
Main entry: make-believe, pretend
Definition: imagined as in a play
Usage: the make-believe world of theater; play money; dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish