Word Meanings - FEIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. 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. There are no such things done as

Additional info about word: FEIGN

figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, 1. 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. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak. 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak. 3. To dissemble; to conceal. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEIGN)

• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• influence
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Assume
• Take
• appropriate
• arrogate
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• claim
• affect
• Forge
• Work
• frame
• produce
• elaborate
• fabricate
• counterfeit
• falsify
• form
• shape
• make falsely
• Invent
• Discover
• contrive
• concoct
• imagine
• conceive
• design
• devise
• originate
• find out
• forge
• Pretend
• Feign
• similate
• offer
• allege
• propound
• profess

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FEIGN)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Expose
• unmask
• detect
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to FEIGN)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.