Synonyms: make-believe, pretend
Definition: the enactment of a pretense
Usage: it was just pretend
Similar words: simulation, pretence, pretending, pretense, feigning
Definition: the act of giving a false appearance
Usage: his conformity was only pretending
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
Similar words: claim
Definition: assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
Usage: He claimed that he killed the burglar
Synonyms: sham, dissemble, feign, pretend, affect
Definition: make believe with the intent to deceive
Usage: He feigned that he was ill; He shammed a headache
Similar words: belie, misrepresent
Definition: represent falsely
Usage: This statement misrepresents my intentions
Synonyms: make, make believe, pretend
Definition: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
Usage: She makes like an actress
Similar words: represent, play, act
Definition: play a role or part
Usage: Gielgud played Hamlet; She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role; She played the servant to her husband's master
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: speculate
Definition: 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
Usage: We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal
Synonyms: pretend
Definition: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
Usage: pretend the title of King
Similar words: claim, lay claim, arrogate
Definition: demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
Usage: He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter; Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: unreal
Definition: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
Usage: ghosts and other unreal entities; unreal propaganda serving as news