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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Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..
Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..
Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Quidnunc :: Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..
Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Homely :: Homely (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners..
Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..
Soi-disant :: Soi-disant (a.) Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.
Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..
Divination :: Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
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