Word Meanings - PRETENDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETENDED)

• Fabulous
• Fictitious
• incredible
• feigned
• imaginary
• pretended
• false
• monstrous
• Nominal
• Trifling
• suppositious
• ostensible
• professed
• formal
• Ostensible
• Avowed
• declared
• manifest
• visible
• nominal
• apparent
• outward

Related words: (words related to PRETENDED)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• INCREDIBLENESS
  Incredibility.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• NOMINALIST
  One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• NOMINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• DECLARATOR
  A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• NOMINALIZE
  To convert into a noun.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• COGNOMINAL
  Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.