The meaning of Pretend

determiner

Used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation.

Usage examples:

A man came out of the room

abbreviation

(in travel timetables) arrives.

Usage examples:

Penzance a 0915

symbol

(in units of measurement) atto- (10−18).

verb

Have an effect on; make a difference to.

Usage examples:

The dampness began to affect my health

verb

Pretend to have or feel (something).

Usage examples:

As usual i affected a supreme unconcern

noun

Emotion or desire as influencing behaviour.

Usage examples:

By triggering affect and emotion, intolerant behaviors are set in motion.

verb

Conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs.

Usage examples:

An honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble

verb

To hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts

Usage examples:

He accused the government of dissembling.

verb

Conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character).

Usage examples:

A country gentleman who dissimulates his wealth beneath ragged pullovers

verb

To hide your real feelings, character, or intentions

Usage examples:

They did not try to dissimulate their grief.

noun

A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.

Usage examples:

I had a recurrent dream about falling from great heights

verb

Experience dreams during sleep.

Usage examples:

I dreamed about her last night

noun

The activities, images, and feelings experienced by the mind during sleep

Usage examples:

In the dream i had last night, someone was chasing me, but i didn’t know who it was., it was his dr…

phrasal verb

To invent something new by using a lot of imagination

Usage examples:

The gerbils is an odd name for a baseball team – who dreamed it up?

adjective

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit.

Usage examples:

She got on the plane with a fake passport

noun

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham.

Usage examples:

Fakes of old masters

verb

Forge or counterfeit (something).

Usage examples:

She faked her spouse's signature

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

adjective

(of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.

Usage examples:

I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes

adjective

Over-imaginative and unrealistic.

Usage examples:

Ever more fanciful proposals were raised

verb

Indulge in daydreaming about something desired.

Usage examples:

He sometimes fantasized about emigrating

verb

Past simple and past participle of fantasize

Usage examples:

He fantasized about winning the nobel prize., [ + that ] as a child, emma fantasized that she would…

noun

The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.

Usage examples:

His researches had moved into the realms of fantasy

verb

Imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about.

Usage examples:

It is ludicrous to fantasy ‘disinventing’ the hydrogen bomb

noun

A pleasant but unlikely situation that you enjoy thinking about, or the activity of thinking in this way

Usage examples:

[ c ] writing songs was just a fantasy of mine., [ u ] she retreated from life into a world of fant…

adjective

Simulated or pretended; insincere.

Usage examples:

Her eyes widened with feigned shock

verb

Pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).

Usage examples:

She feigned nervousness

verb

Past simple and past participle of feign

Usage examples:

You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are., the prosecution claimed …

adjective

Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated.

Usage examples:

Reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the minister

adjective

Invented and not true or existing; false

Usage examples:

He registered at the hotel under a fictitious name.

adjective

Not real

Usage examples:

Executives invented fictitious sales to justify amounts transferred offshore., many of the internet…

adjective

Created by the imagination.

Usage examples:

The novel's fictive universe

adjective

Invented and not true or not existing

Usage examples:

His story is about the residents of a fictive american town., the speech was a combination of ficti…

adjective

Existing only in the imagination.

Usage examples:

Chris had imaginary conversations with her

adjective

Existing only in the mind; not real

Usage examples:

All her worries were imaginary.

adjective

(of something unreal or untrue) believed to exist or be so.

Usage examples:

They suffered from ill health, real or imagined, throughout their lives

verb

Form a mental image or concept of.

Usage examples:

She imagined him at his desk, his head in his hands

adjective

Copying or following a model or example.

Usage examples:

The derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats

adjective

Copying someone or something

Usage examples:

All these magazines are imitative of each other., he's an imitative artist, with very little origin…

verb

Create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of.

Usage examples:

He invented an improved form of the steam engine

noun

A child or young person.

Usage examples:

She collected the kids from school

verb

(of a goat) give birth.

Usage examples:

Milk fever usually occurs in heavy milkers shortly after kidding

verb

Deceive (someone) in a playful way; tease.

Usage examples:

You're kidding me!

adjective

Wearing esp. a lot of makeup

Usage examples:

She was heavily made-up and wearing a wig., a made-up name, they complained about "made-up" data.

idiom

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

noun

The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.

Usage examples:

She's living in a world of make-believe

adjective

Imitating something real.

Usage examples:

He was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes

verb

Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.

Usage examples:

Opposition mps mocked the government's decision

adjective

Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.

Usage examples:

A mock-georgian red brick house

noun

Make a replica or imitation of something.

adjective

Occurring in or characteristic of myths or folk tales.

Usage examples:

One of denmark's greatest mythical heroes

adjective

Mythical also means imaginary or not real

Usage examples:

I’d like to see that mythical girlfriend he’s always talking about.

verb

Present or constitute (a problem or danger).

Usage examples:

The sheer number of visitors is posing a threat to the area

noun

A way of standing or sitting, especially in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn.

Usage examples:

Photographs of boxers in ferocious poses

verb

Puzzle or perplex (someone) with a question or problem.

Usage examples:

We have thus posed the mathematician and the historian

noun

The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.

Usage examples:

I got out of the car in an alert posture

verb

Behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead.

Usage examples:

A billionaire posturing as a hero of the working class

adjective

Not genuine; assumed.

Usage examples:

Eating ice cream with pretended unconcern

verb

Behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.

Usage examples:

I closed my eyes and pretended i was asleep

adjective

False

Usage examples:

His pretended enthusiasm/interest

verb

Claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case.

Usage examples:

He had professed his love for her only to walk away

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Usage examples:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Usage examples:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

verb

Short for pillow sham.

adjective

Manufactured in imitation of some other material.

Usage examples:

A simulated leather handbag

verb

Imitate the appearance or character of.

Usage examples:

Red ochre intended to simulate blood

adjective

Made to look like something else; artificial

Usage examples:

Simulated leather

adjective

Imaginary or illusory.

Usage examples:

In the half-light the tiny cottages seemed unreal

adjective

As if imagined; strange and like a dream

Usage examples:

His face was an eerie, unreal color., we just ate and ate, and i was so full it was unreal.