pretended as an adjective: - 1
pretended
adjective
1 pretended
Adopted in order to deceive:
— A pretended interest.
synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham.
Roget 545:
deceived
etc.
v.;
deceiving
&c.;
cunning
etc.
702;
prestigious†,
prestigiatory†;
deceptive,
deceptious†;
deceitful,
covinous†;
delusive,
delusory;
illusive,
illusory;
elusive,
insidious,
ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].
untrue
etc.
546;
mock,
sham,
make-believe,
counterfeit,
snide [Slang],
pseudo,
spurious,
supposititious,
so-called,
pretended,
feigned,
trumped up,
bogus,
scamped,
fraudulent,
tricky,
factitious bastard;
surreptitious,
illegitimate,
contraband,
adulterated,
sophisticated;
unsound,
rotten at the core;
colorable;
disguised;
meretricious,
tinsel,
pinchbeck,
plated;
catchpenny;
Brummagem.
artificial,
synthetic,
ersatz [G.];
simulated
etc.
544.
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Roget 617:
ostensibly
etc.
(manifest)
525;
alleged,
apologetic;
pretended
etc.
545.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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