Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

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Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Quidnunc :: Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on..
Humble :: Humble (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage..
Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..
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..
Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Preterition :: Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. Called also paraleipsis..
Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..
Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..
Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.
Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..
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