pretense

pretense is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Pretence. 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.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Alt. of Pretence
2. noun. the act of giving a false appearance

   "his conformity was only pretending"

   Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation

3. noun. an artful or simulated semblance

   "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

   Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext

4. noun. a false or unsupportable quality

   Synonyms: pretence, pretension

5. noun. imaginative intellectual play

   Synonyms: pretence

6. noun. pretending with intention to deceive

   Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence

Synonyms

feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation, guise, pretext, pretension, dissembling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pretense:

petersen, preteens, terpenes

Common word forms

pretensed, pretenses, pretenseful, pretenseless

Words from these letters

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