pretend

Adjective

• imagined as in a play
  • the make-believe world of theater
    
  • play money
    
  • dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
    

Noun

• the enactment of a pretense
  • it was just pretend
    

Verb

• state insincerely
  • He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt
    
  • She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
    
  • She pretends to be an expert on wine
    

• represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
  • She makes like an actress
    

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
  • I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again
    
  • I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
    

• put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
  • pretend the title of King
    

• behave unnaturally or affectedly
  • She's just acting
    

• make believe with the intent to deceive
  • He feigned that he was ill
    
  • He shammed a headache
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  make-believe , profess , make , make believe , guess , venture , hazard , dissemble , act , feign , sham , affect