pretended English

Meaning pretended meaning

What does pretended mean?

pretended

— adjective (= assumed, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham) adopted in order to deceive an assumed name an assumed cheerfulness a fictitious address fictive sympathy a pretended interest a put-on childish voice sham modesty

Synonyms pretended synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pretended?

pretended English » English

sham

feigned

false

assumed

simulated

mock

counterfeit

supposed

spurious

make-believe

bogus

would-be

shoddy

put on

pseudo

make believe

fictive

fictitious

faked

affected

untrue

unreal

unnatural

simulation

seeming

quasi

put-on

professed

pinchbeck

pathomimesis

ostensible

malingery

insincere

fraudulent

fantastic

dummy

disguised

counterfeit illness

colourable

artificial

artful