pretended

Speech parts

1. pretended - Adjective

2. pretended - Verb

4. pretended - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Pretend

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

assumed false fictitious sham fictive put on Potemkin unreal make-believe affected supposed artificial fictional synthetic shallow
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Antonyms

right natural good real true bona fide
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Phrases with the word

pretended behavior be pretended pretended to be

Examples

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. George Washington

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible. Archimedes

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. Arthur Cecil Pigou

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. Adam Smith

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not. Bernard of Clairvaux

Close letter words and terms

pretend to know nothing pretend to sleep pretendant pretended behavior pretended to be pretendedly