pretend
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4.9
- adjective
- /prɪˈtɛnd/
:
imaginario
- "All I'm asking for, mate, is a little pretend love," said Lamar.
- pretend play
- pretend behavior
- pretend play-related
The flower girls are carrying a pretend train now, laughter as they go by.
- The flower girls are carrying a pretend train now, laughter as they go by.
- I'm best known for catching pretend fugitives.
- So we'll be reading that on the beach or pretend beach in my head.
- But to act it, you know, it's just all it's, it's all, it's pretend pretend.
- I wish I lived there even just in a pretend mind trip.
- OK, now the most pretend I have felt in a long long long one.
Examples
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In children with typical development, pretend play emerges early in the second year of life.
Academic text (2003) -
With a little shout of triumph, she finds the small plastic figures she calls "pretend friends."
Fiction book (2000) -
How would you like to be my pretend children for one afternoon?
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We're gonna put on a pretend play.
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Everybody was very quiet about standing in line, even my pretend brother and sister and all the other kids...
Fiction book (2000) -
Sweetie, do you mean a pretend person?
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I stood in line with my pretend family for a long, long time.
Fiction book (2000) -
In fact, the contexts were the typical classroom settings and activities where pretend play behaviors are expected.
Academic text (2015) -
Essentially, these children produced pretend play that was unplanned, but they were beginning to show signs of decentration.
Academic text (2003) -
The children created a beautiful world in their pretend kingdom, filled with dragons and fairies.
Synonyms
833
1.8
Not real and made to look like something real
25
4.3
Made to look or act like the real thing for practice
3
3.7
Imaginary and made to seem real for play or stories
1
5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
Made to look like the real thing for practice
Made to look like something real but not the original
Made to seem real to trick people
Antonyms
Compounds
How Real
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pretend comes from old parts pre- 'before' and tend 'stretch', the same root you see in tension and tend. From the idea of 'stretching' a scene or story, pretend came to mean something that is made up or 'imaginary'.