Word Meanings - PRETEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden. 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise

Additional info about word: PRETEND

praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden. 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them. Milton. 3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real ; to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship. This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal. Milton. 4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state. Shak. 5. To hold before one; to extend. "His target always over her pretended." Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETEND)

• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• influence
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Assume
• Take
• appropriate
• arrogate
• wear
• exhibit
• postulate
• suppose
• presume
• usurp
• claim
• affect
• Profess
• Declare
• avow
• acknowledge
• own
• confess
• proclaim
• lay claim to
• Simulate
• Feign
• counterfeit
• impersonate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRETEND)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to PRETEND)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• 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.
• 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.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SIMULATE
  Feigned; pretended. Bale. (more info) akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar,
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.