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pre-tenses
noun as in make believe
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in mask
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in masquerade
noun as in mockery
noun as in nonsense
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pose
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pretense
Strong matches
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in pretension
noun as in pretext
noun as in profession
noun as in quibble
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in semblance
noun as in sham
noun as in show
noun as in title
noun as in trick
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conundrum
- cover
- decoy
- delusion
- disguise
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- game
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- perjury
- pretense
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- treachery
- wile
noun as in trickery
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in insincerity
Strong matches
noun as in bluff
noun as in pretending
noun as in quackery
noun as in cant
noun as in act
noun as in subterfuge
noun as in acting
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in affectedness
noun as in façade
noun as in false colors
noun as in claim
noun as in put on
noun as in shiftiness
Strong matches
noun as in tommyrot
Strong matches
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- madness
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
Weak matches
noun as in color
noun as in cover-up
noun as in affectation
noun as in deceit
Strong matches
noun as in deceit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in deception
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in decoy
noun as in disguise
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in airs
noun as in euphemism
noun as in facade
noun as in fake
noun as in falsehood
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in fooling
noun as in humbug
noun as in imposture
noun as in make believe
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in mask
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in masquerade
noun as in mockery
noun as in nonsense
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pose
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in pretense
Strong matches
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in pretension
noun as in pretext
noun as in profession
noun as in quibble
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in semblance
noun as in sham
noun as in show
noun as in title
noun as in trick
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conundrum
- cover
- decoy
- delusion
- disguise
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- game
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- perjury
- pretense
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- treachery
- wile
noun as in trickery
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in insincerity
Strong matches
noun as in bluff
noun as in pretending
noun as in quackery
noun as in cant
noun as in act
noun as in subterfuge
noun as in acting
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in affectedness
noun as in façade
noun as in false colors
noun as in claim
noun as in put on
noun as in shiftiness
Strong matches
noun as in tommyrot
Strong matches
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- madness
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
Weak matches
noun as in color
noun as in cover-up
noun as in affectation
noun as in deceit
Strong matches
noun as in deceit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in deception
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in decoy
noun as in disguise
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in airs
noun as in euphemism
noun as in facade
noun as in fake
noun as in falsehood
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in fooling
noun as in humbug
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On this page you'll find 1522 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pre-tenses, such as: charade, disguise, dissimulation, dream, fakery, and fantasy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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