Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..

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Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..
Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..
Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..
Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..
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