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Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

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Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

Feint :: Feint (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.

Irony :: Irony (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

Feigning :: Feigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feig.

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2..

Dummerer :: Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.

Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..

Pretend :: 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..

False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

Make-belief :: Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.

Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

Feigning :: Feigning (a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..

Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.

Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.