Dictionary Entry

pretend

pretend is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses

Definitions

1transitive verb
To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
2transitive verb
To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
3transitive verb
To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
4transitive verb
To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
5transitive verb
To hold before one; to extend.
6intransitive verb
To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.
7intransitive verb
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.
8noun
the enactment of a pretense
"it was just pretend"
9verb
state insincerely
"He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"
"She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"
Synonyms
profess
10verb
make believe with the intent to deceive
"He feigned that he was ill"
"He shammed a headache"
Synonyms
affect dissemble feign sham
11verb
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
"She makes like an actress"
Synonyms
make
12verb
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
"I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"
"I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
Synonyms
guess hazard venture
13verb
behave unnaturally or affectedly
"She's just acting"
Synonyms
act dissemble
14verb
put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
"pretend the title of King"
15adjective
imagined as in a play
"the make-believe world of theater"
"play money"

Synonyms

profess affect dissemble feign sham make guess hazard venture act

Common word forms

pretends pretended pretender pretending

Words from these letters

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