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

1. transitive verb. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
2. transitive verb. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
5. transitive verb. To hold before one; to extend.
6. intransitive 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.
7. intransitive 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.
8. noun. the enactment of a pretense

   "it was just pretend"

9. verb. state insincerely

   "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"

   "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"

   Synonyms: profess

10. verb. make believe with the intent to deceive

    "He feigned that he was ill"

    "He shammed a headache"

    Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham

11. verb. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

    "She makes like an actress"

    Synonyms: make

12. verb. 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

13. verb. behave unnaturally or affectedly

    "She's just acting"

    Synonyms: act, dissemble

14. verb. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

    "pretend the title of King"

15. adjective. 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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