Dictionary Entry
pretence
pretence is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Pretenceless. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Alt. of Pretenceless
- 2noun
The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
- 3noun
The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
- 4noun
That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
- 5noun
Intention; design.
- 6noun
the act of giving a false appearance
"his conformity was only pretending"
- 7noun
an artful or simulated semblance
"under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- 8noun
a false or unsupportable quality
Synonyms
- 9noun
imaginative intellectual play
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- 10noun
pretending with intention to deceive
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