Definitions for pretend

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pretend pre·tend

Spelling: [pri-tend]

IPA: /prɪˈtɛnd/

Pretend is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in pretend (deenprt).

Definitions for pretend

adjective

1. Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so:
2. to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign:
3. to make believe:
4. to presume; venture:
5. to allege or profess, especially insincerely or falsely:

verb (used without object)

1. to make believe.
2. to lay claim to (usually followed by to):
3. to make pretensions (usually followed by to):
4. Obsolete. to aspire, as a suitor or candidate (followed by to).

Origin of pretend

1325-75; Middle English pretenden Latin praetendere to stretch forth, put forward, pretend. See pre-, tend¹

Examples for pretend

Quickly, the lines between their pretend feelings for each other and their real ones are blurred.

When they come in, pretend you just came here in order to meet me.

Or: “Jazz: Just pretend you like it, that's what everyone else is doing.”

She would fall in with his better mood and pretend goodness!

So just pretend that stuff never happens, would you, ladies?

Stretch yourself full-length in this arm-chair, and pretend to be dead.

The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?

Why did you pretend to me that you and your wife were alone in the room—when you had that there with you, eh?

I must not pretend, then, that I have a system ready to replace all the other systems.

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.