pretend
verb
[ prɪˈtɛnd ]
• behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.
• "I closed my eyes and pretended I was asleep"
Similar:
make as if,
profess,
affect,
dissimulate,
dissemble,
pose,
posture,
put it on,
put on a false front,
go through the motions,
sham,
fake it,
kid,
• lay claim to (a quality or title).
• "he cannot pretend to sophistication"
pretend
adjective
• not really what it is represented as being; imaginary.
• "the children poured out pretend tea for the dolls"
Similar:
imaginary,
imagined,
pretended,
make-believe,
made-up,
fantasy,
fantasized,
fancied,
dream,
dreamed-up,
unreal,
fanciful,
invented,
fictitious,
fictive,
mythical,
feigned,
fake,
mock,
imitative,
sham,
simulated,
artificial,
ersatz,
dummy,
false,
faux,
spurious,
bogus,
counterfeit,
fraudulent,
forged,
pseudo,
phoney,
fakey,
play-play,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin praetendere ‘stretch forth, claim’, from prae ‘before’ + tendere ‘stretch’. The adjective dates from the early 20th century.
let's pretend
• a game or situation in which one behaves as though a fictional or unreal situation is a real one.
• "a crazy and possibly dangerous game of let's pretend"
