What does pretended mean?

Definitions for pretended
prɪˈtɛn dɪdpre·tend·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, shamadjective

    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"

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  1. pretended

    Pretended generally refers to the act of making something appear to be true or real when it is not, often with the intention to deceive or mislead. It can also mean behaving in a way that is intended to make others believe something that is not true, such as simulating feelings, actions or motives.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pretended

    of Pretend

  2. Pretendedadjective

    making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pretended in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pretended in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pretended in a Sentence

  1. Hillary Clinton:

    This whole time they've pretended that they basically don't care about the criticism, but this is a signal they have taken that to heart and they're trying to rebut that perception.

  2. John Gay:

    An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

  3. Van Der Beek:

    I did [meet Trump] at an Oscar party years ago, it was a two second passing. He pretended to [recognize me] if he didn’t.

  4. R Chamberlain:

    There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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