Synonyms for feign
Definitions
- v. 1
To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- v. 2
To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
Related words
- Word family
- feigned
Forms
- Past participle
- feigned
e.g. feigned → pretended, affected, assumed, simulated…
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If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- pretend I hate it when you pretend like you don't know me.
- disguise Your affection was just a transaction in disguise.
- simulate Tom banged coconuts together to simulate riding.
- deceive I assure you that I didn't intend to deceive you.
By length
- 3 letters
- act1
- 4 letters
- make1, play1, sham1
- 5 letters
- front1, fable2
- 6 letters
- affect2, assume2
- 7 letters
- pretend2, deceive2
- 8 letters
- disguise2, simulate3
- 9 letters
- fabricate3, beglammer
- 11 letters
- counterfeit3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fable2 = 2 syllables).