Definition of pretender

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Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

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Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..
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..
Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..
Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..
Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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..
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
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