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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretending to be somebody |
| Synonyms: | imitation, impersonation, masquerade, parody, sendup, takeoff |
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artificial position |
| Synonyms: | act, affectation, air, attitude, attitudinizing, bearing, carriage, facade, fake, false show, front, guise, mannerism, masquerade, mien, positure, posture, posturing, pretense, pretension, role, stance, stand |
| Antonyms: | movement |
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, fake |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, attitudinize, feign, grandstand, impersonate, make believe, make out like, masquerade, pass off, peacock, playact, posture, profess, purport, put on airs, put up a front, sham*, show off*, strike an attitude, take off as |
| Antonyms: | be genuine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | posture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | display an attitude |
| Synonyms: | affect, attitudinize, display, do a bit, do for effect, fake, fake it, make a show, masquerade, pass for, pass off, playact, pose, put on airs, put up a front, show off* |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fake, falsify |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, allege, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bluff, cheat, claim, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fake out, feign, fish*, fool, fudge, hoodwink*, impersonate, jazz, jive, lay claim, let on, make out, malinger, masquerade, mislead, pass off, pass oneself off as, profess, purport, put on*, put up a front, sham*, shuck and jive, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play the part of |
| Synonyms: | act, assume the role, imagine, imitate, impersonate, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, masquerade, mimic, play, playact, portray, pose, purport, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act, represent, reproduce, suppose |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretext |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; alleged reason |
| Synonyms: | affectation, alibi, appearance, bluff, cleanup, cloak, color*, coloring, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover-up, device, excuse, face, feint, fig leaf, front, guise, mask, masquerade, plea, ploy, pretense, red herring, routine, ruse, semblance, show, simulation, song and dance, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, veil* |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | put on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, confound, confuse, counterfeit, deceive, don, fake, feign, make believe, masquerade, playact, pose, pull, put on a front, put on an act, sham, simulate, strike, take on, trick |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
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