Define the word pretended"Pretended" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pretended; p. pr. &
vb. n. Pretending.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
See Tend, v. t. ]
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
--Dryden.
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2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
[R.]
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Lest that too heavenly form, pretended
To hellish falsehood, snare them. --Milton.
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3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
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This let him know,
Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend
Surprisal. --Milton.
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4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
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Such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state. --Shak.
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5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] "His target always
over her pretended." --Spenser.
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"Pretended" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Pretended \Pre*tend"ed\, a.
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended
friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
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"pretended" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
pretended
adj : 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" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious,
fictive, put on, sham]
"pretended" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretended":
affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial, asserted, assumed,
avowed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, claimed, colorable, colored,
counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy,
embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false,
falsified, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, garbled,
hypocritical, illegitimate, imaginary, imitation, in name only,
junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, ostensible, perverted, phony,
pinchbeck, pretend, pretexted, professed, pseudo, purported,
put-on, quasi, queer, reputed, self-styled, sham, shoddy,
simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spurious, supposed,
supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted,
unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped
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