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pretended 音標拼音: [prit'ɛndəd] [prit'ɛndɪd] a. 偽的,假的,虛偽的 偽的,假的,虛偽的 pretended adj 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" [ synonym: { assumed}, { false}, { fictitious}, { fictive}, { pretended}, { put on}, { sham}] Pretended \ Pre* tend" ed\, a. Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- { Pre* tend" ed* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster]
Pretend \ Pre* tend"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Pretended}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Pretending}.] [ OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F. pr[' e] tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward, pretend, simulate, assert; prae before tendere to stretch. See { Tend}, v. t. ] 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. [ 1913 Webster] Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real ( something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship. [ 1913 Webster] This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To hold before one; to extend. [ Obs.] " His target always over her pretended." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " pretended": affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial, asserted, assumed, avowed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, claimed, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imaginary, imitation, in name only, junky, make- believe, man- made, mock, ostensible, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretend, pretexted, professed, pseudo, purported, put- on, quasi, queer, reputed, self- styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so- called, soi- disant, specious, spurious, supposed, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped
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