Pretended

Definition: Pretended

Pretended

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "pretended" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Pretended

Synonyms: assumed (adj), false (adj), fictitious (adj), fictive (adj), put on (adj), sham (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, 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.
Dissuasion	Adjective: ostensibly; (manifest); alleged, apologetic; pretended.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pretended

English words defined with "pretended": Abelonian, actual, Assentation, assumed ♦ Backare ♦ decorously, Dogsleep, Dudder ♦ eye-beaming ♦ false, Feigned issue, fictitious, fictive, Fox sleep ♦ genuine ♦ Hocuspocus ♦ ostensible, ostensive ♦ post office, Pretensed, Pseudo-, put on ♦ sham ♦ true ♦ unfeigned. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pretended": ABRAM MEN, Aganice, AUTEM GOGLERS ♦ BLOSS, BLOWEN ♦ Canace ♦ Dog-Latin, Dog-sleep ♦ Fenella, Fleas ♦ Galeotti ♦ Long-tailed ♦ Multipliers ♦ OS and JEDGAR ♦ Podgers ♦ Snakes, SOLDIER'S MAWND. (references)

Etymologies containing "pretended": Barmecide ♦ Pretensed ♦ schematic. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We, uh, we pretended. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) I pretended your jockstrap was an oxygen mask all day today. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) When we were kids I used to visit and we pretended to be sisters. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) And I know this becausebecause he pretended to be Drake too, to sleep with me. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)
Lyrics	Pretended not to see the truth (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA)
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Domain	Title
Books	Against the pretended power of impositions (reference) In the Twilight of Western Thought: Studies in the Pretended Autonomy of Philosophical Thought (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd Series B, Vol 4) (reference) Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Marshpee Tribe : Or, the Pretended Riot Explained (American indian (reference) The exemplary novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : to which are added El buscapié, or, The serpent, and La tía fingida, or, The pretended aunt (reference) Treatise on the Pretended Divorce Between Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Denis Diderot	When God, from whom I have my reason, demands of me to sacrifice it, he becomes a mere juggler that snatches from me what he pretended to give.
John Gay	An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	First, That when such a single person, or prince, sets up his own arbitrary will in place of the laws, which are the will of the society, declarad by the legislative, then the legislative is changed: for that being in effect the legislative, whose rules and laws are put in execution, and required to be obeyed; when other laws are set up, and other rules pretended, and inforced, than what the legislative, constituted by the society, have enacted, it is plain that the legislative is changed. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	These men were brought from the galleys and confronted with the pretended Champmathieu.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	But he had pretended not to see that she was going to cry.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	She was trying to see it in a mirror behind the counter without letting the truck driver know, and so she pretended to push a bit of hair to neatness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	Nor can it be pretended that they are not answerable for the atrocities perpetrated, since the savages are employed with a knowledge, and even with menaces, that their fury could not be controlled.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pretended" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 80.96% of the time. "Pretended" is used about 540 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	80.96%	438	13,172
Lexical Verb (past participle)	12.38%	67	40,952
Adjective (general or positive)	6.47%	35	58,339
Noun (proper)	0.18%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	540	N/A

Expression using "pretended": pretended hesitance. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "pretended"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pretenduar (alleged, ostensible). (various references)

Arabic		‏متظاهر (demonstrator, marcher, rioter, simulator), ‏مزعوم (alleged, allegedly, claimed, professed, so called, supposed), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal). (various references)

Bulgarian		неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, synthetic, tortuous), лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), престорен (affected, bogus, factitious, feigned, mimic, phoney, put on, sham, simulated, synthetic). (various references)

Chinese		假装 (Disguised, Disguising, Feigned, guise, Pretend, Pretending). (various references)

Czech		uchazeè (applicant, aspirant, contender, entrant). (various references)

Finnish		hän ei ollut tietävinään (he pretended not to know), hän ei ollut kuulevinaan (he pretended not to hear). (various references)

French		prétendu, soi-disant, feint. (various references)

German		vermeintlich (alleged, putative, reputed, supposed), gab vor, angeblich (alleged, allegedly, ostensible, ostensibly, professed, professedly, reputed, so called, soi-disant, supposedly). (various references)

Greek		προσποιητόσ (affected, make believe). (various references)

Hungarian		tettetett (affected, assumed, false, feigned, insincere). (various references)

Indonesian		pura-pura (affect, affection, illusive, mock, ostensible, pretend, quasi), aka-akal (feigned). (various references)

Italian		finto (artificial, bogus, double, dummy, false, feigned, fictious, insincere, mock, ostensible, pseudo, sham), falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		似非 (false, mock, pseudo, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		えせ (false, mock, pseudo, pseudo-, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Korean		가장하�" (Disguised). (various references)

Pig Latin		etendedpray

Portuguese		pretenso (ostensible, professed, reputed, self-styled, so-called, supposed, would-be), suposto (assumed, reputed, seeming, self-styled, so-called, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, would-be), simulado (artful, assumed, counterfeit, double, dummy, feigned, make-believe, mock, sham, simulate, simulated, spurious), fingido (artificial, assumed, cattish, double, faked, false, feigned, forced, insincere, make-believe, sham, supposititious), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong). (various references)

Russian		поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vajni (professed, sham, would be), tobožnji (assumed, ostensibly, quasi, supposed, would be). (various references)

Spanish		supuesto (assumed, involved, postulation, self-styled, so called, supposed, think), fingido (assumed, bogus, dissembled, feigned, make believe, mimic, mock, professed, sham, simulated, unction). (various references)

Swedish		hycklad (sham), föregiven (feign, fictitious, ostensible, ostentatious, professed, self-styled). (various references)

Turkish		yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), numaradan (false). (various references)

Ukrainian		удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), так званий (so called). (various references)

Vietnamese		giả vờ (feigned, simulative), giả cách (simulative), giả bộ (sham), giả đò (counterfeit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adsimilata, adsimilatae, adsimilati, adsimilatum, adsimilatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pretended": pretendedly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pretended" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pertenue, Pertunda, prepended, pretenden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pretended" (pronounced prēte"ndud)
6	-t e" n d u d	attended, contended, distended, extended, intended, overextended, tended, unattended, unintended.
5	-e" n d u d	amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, befriended, bended, blended, commended, comprehended, defended, depended, descended, ended, expended, fended, mended, offended, recommended, splendid, suspended, transcended, trended, unamended.
4	-n d u d	abounded, astounded, backhanded, banded, blinded, bonded, bounded, branded, candid, commanded, compounded, confounded, corresponded, demanded, disbanded, dumbfounded, evenhanded, expanded, expounded, founded, funded, grounded, handed, hounded, impounded, landed, masterminded, minded, overfunded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, sanded, seconded, sounded, stranded, surrounded, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfounded, unfunded, winded, wounded.
3	-d u d	abided, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: repented, repetend, tendered.
	-2 letters: entered, petered, preened, preteen, pretend, terpene, trended.
	-3 letters: deepen, deeper, dented, depend, entree, eterne, needed, needer, peened, peered, pended, redden, reeded, rended, rented, repent, retene, tedder, teener, tended, tender.
	-4 letters: deter, dreed, ended, ender, enter, peter, preed, preen, reded, rente, tepee, terne, treed, treen, trend.
	-5 letters: deed, deep, deer, deet, dene.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-e-n-p-r-t"
	+2 letters: interdepend, predestined, pretendedly.
	+3 letters: interdepends, interpleaded.
	+4 letters: hyperextended, interdepended, overdependent, predesignated, predestinated, predetermined, preponderated, superintended, underreported, unprecedented.
	+5 letters: interdependent, interdepending, unpremeditated.
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