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Pretended   /pritˈɛndəd/  /pritˈɛndɪd/   Listen
Pretended

adjective
1.
Adopted in order to deceive.  Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham.  "An assumed cheerfulness" , "A fictitious address" , "Fictive sympathy" , "A pretended interest" , "A put-on childish voice" , "Sham modesty"


Pretend

verb
(past & past part. pretended; pres. part. pretending)
1.
Make believe with the intent to deceive.  Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham.  "He shammed a headache"
2.
Behave unnaturally or affectedly.  Synonyms: act, dissemble.
3.
Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of.
4.
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.  Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture.  "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
5.
Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like.  Synonyms: make, make believe.
6.
State insincerely.  Synonym: profess.  "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber" , "She pretends to be an expert on wine"



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"Pretended" Quotes from Famous Books



... exceeds in fame any one of Rueckert's Oriental collections, including the Weisheit des Brahmanen. The exception to the rule is Bodenstedt. His reputation rests almost solely on the Mirza Schaffy songs; but it will scarcely be pretended ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... now; I'd 'ave 'ad some of 'em girls for variety's sake—wot's the use of 'em?" asked the imp, who pretended ignorance, in order to draw out ...
— The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands • R.M. Ballantyne
... stand in need of its services, placed it at the disposal of the Union. Nothing could be more welcome to these troops than the prospect of aiding their confederates in Bohemia, at the cost of a third party. Mansfeld received orders forthwith to march with these 4000 men into that kingdom; and a pretended Bohemian commission was given to blind the public as to the true author of ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used.' So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good, patient queen, as she was. Then the king grew very cross indeed. But the queen pretended to take it all as a joke, and a very ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
... trial I had to make, monsieur, of pretended servants, who eat my bread, and ought to defend my person. The trial has ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas


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