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pretendadjective being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materialsif you were to see the movie's pretend jewels in real life, you wouldn't be fooled for a minute artificial, bogus, dummy, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic cultured, manufactured, processunauthenticadulterated, designer, doctored, engineered, fudged, juggled, manipulated, tampered (with)concocted, fabricatedcounterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading, phony(also phoney)affected, brummagem, feigned, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious genuine, natural, real authentic, bona fide, legitimate, truepremium, quality, valuablepure, unadulterated not real and existing only in the imaginationit's just a pretend gun, so please pretend that I got you and play dead chimerical(also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic(also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical(or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, unreal, visionary fabled, legendary, romanticabstract, hypothetical, theoretical(also theoretic)unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikelyconceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualizeddaydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric(or phantasmagorical)concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictiveinexistent, nonexistent actual, existent, existing, real authentic, genuine, truefactual, verifiable, verifiedbelievable, convincing, realisticcorporeal, material, physical, solid, substantialpalpable, tangible to take on a false or deceptive appearanceI pretended that I didn't care that my ex had a new man in her life dissemble, dissimulate, let on, make out act, impersonate, masquerade, play, playact, poseaffect, assume, counterfeit, fake, feign, profess, put on, sham, simulatecamouflage, conceal, disguise, maskbluff, feint make a pretense, make a show, make believe, put on an act, put up a front to present a false appearance ofas if I would ever pretend illness just to take off a day from work act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pass (for), profess, put on, sham, simulate dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, poseforge, imitatecamouflage, conceal, disguise, maskfeintmalinger make believe v.assume, affect, pretend, simulate, feign, counterfeit, sham mean to put on a false or deceptive appearance.assume often implies a justifiable motive rather than an intent to deceive.assumed an air of cheerfulness around the patients affect implies making a false show of possessing, using, or feeling.affected an interest in art pretend implies an overt and sustained false appearance.pretended that nothing had happened simulate suggests a close imitation of the appearance of something.cosmetics that simulate a suntan feign implies more artful invention than pretend, less specific mimicry than simulate.feigned sickness counterfeit implies achieving the highest degree of verisimilitude of any of these words.an actor counterfeiting drunkenness sham implies an obvious falseness that fools only the gullible.shammed a most unconvincing limp in the 15th century |