Antonyms for pretend
prɪˈtɛndpre·tend

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1. pretend

   The distinctive idea of assume is to take by one's own independent volition, whether well or ill, rightfully or wrongfully. One may accept an obligation or assume an authority that properly belongs to him, or he may assume an obligation or indebtedness that could not be required of him. He may assume authority or office that is his right; if he assumes what does not belong to him, he is said to arrogate or usurp it. A man may usurp the substance of power in the most unpretending way; what he arrogates to himself he assumes with a haughty and overbearing manner. One assumes the robes or insignia of office by putting them on, with or without right. If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes. What a debater postulates he openly states and takes for granted without proof; what he assumes he may take for granted without mention. A favorite trick of the sophist is quietly to assume as true what would at once be challenged if expressly stated. What a man claims he asserts his right to take; what he assumes he takes.

   Synonyms:
   accept, affect, appropriate, arrogate, assume, claim, feign, postulate, presume, put on, take, usurp

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. pretend

   Antonyms:
   verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute

   Synonyms:
   feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Claim
   • Speculate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. make-believe, pretendadjective

   the enactment of a pretense

   "it was just pretend"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   pretense, pretence, make-believe

2. make-believe, pretendverb

   imagined as in a play

   "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   make-believe

3. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissembleverb

   make believe with the intent to deceive

   "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

   Synonyms:
   bear upon, make believe, mask, touch, cloak, touch on, strike, dissemble, move, assume, involve, venture, simulate, impress, affect, hazard, feign, act, impact, sham, guess, profess, bear on, regard, make

4. dissemble, pretend, actverb

   behave unnaturally or affectedly

   "She's just acting"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   dissemble, make believe, play, represent, mask, move, work, cloak, venture, roleplay, playact, affect, hazard, feign, do, act, sham, guess, profess, behave, make, act as

5. pretendverb

   put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

   "pretend the title of King"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   act, make, guess, affect, feign, dissemble, hazard, make believe, profess, sham, venture

6. guess, venture, pretend, hazardverb

   put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

   "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   guess, run a risk, imagine, infer, opine, adventure, gauge, dissemble, make believe, gamble, sham, chance, reckon, suppose, embark, venture, estimate, affect, hazard, think, jeopardize, stake, act, take chances, approximate, profess, judge, take a chance, risk, make, feign

7. make, pretend, make believeverb

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

   "She makes like an actress"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   earn, create, take in, pass water, dissemble, relieve oneself, score, lay down, pull in, progress to, prepare, get, stool, make up, hit, arrive at, cook, attain, fix, establish, seduce, defecate, urinate, work, wee, puddle, reach, take, have, pee-pee, shit, stimulate, pee, get to, construct, act, throw, hazard, form, gain, micturate, take a shit, venture, cause, realise, do, give, crap, affect, take a leak, sham, induce, hold, clear, make water, spend a penny, produce, nominate, wee-wee, ready, piss, name, guess, take a crap, draw, bring in, make believe, constitute, feign, realize, piddle, profess, ca-ca, build, make

8. profess, pretendverb

   state insincerely

   "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

   Synonyms:
   act, make, feign, confess, affect, dissemble, hazard, concede, make believe, profess, sham, venture, guess

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1. pretendverb

   Synonyms:
   claim, simulate, feign, affect

How to use pretend in a sentence?

1. Dante Lucchesi:

   I don't have the answers. I'm not going to pretend like I do, my business hinges on this, on the football season and everything.

2. Kayla Montgomery:

   I tried to pretend I wasn't sick or anything -- I wanted to go on with life as normal as possible, nobody at school knew, and we were not allowed to talk about it at home. I just avoided it at all costs, and that actually made it a lot harder.

3. Jill Pederson:

   My mom would clean it every week and I would tag along and get up there and pretend to preach to an invisible crowd, in a small community you are all family and that church kept everyone connected in some way and that is what will be missed the most.

4. Daren Coulston:

   I learned that many of them had been cheated of their wages, subjected to beatings and in some cases, sexually assaulted by the ships' officers, it's hard to talk about these experiences for men. Most of them rather pretend it never happened.

5. Jason Wahler:

   I had everything in society the depiction was amazing -- I had money ; I had fame ; I had cars ; I had access and all this stuff, but I would be at my house -- at my own party with a couple hundred people -- in the bathroom, snorting cocaine and walk out with a beer and pretend everything was okay, in reality everything was so miserable, and I could n’t figure out why because I had everything everyone was trying to get.

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