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pretend
Synonyms and Antonyms of pretend
- If you were to see the movie's pretend jewels in real life, you wouldn't be fooled for a minute.
- The children played on a pretend spaceship.
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
pretend
Synonyms and Antonyms of pretend
- I pretended that I didn't care what other people had to say about me.
make a pretense, make a show, make believe, put on an act, put up a front
- As if I would ever pretend illness just to take off a day from work!
make believe
Synonym Discussion of pretend
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- assumed an air of cheerfulness around the patients
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- affected an interest in art
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- pretended that nothing had happened
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- cosmetics that simulate a suntan
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- feigned sickness
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- an actor counterfeiting drunkenness
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- shammed a most unconvincing limp
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