Synonyms of pretend

1 Syllable

bluff, claim, cheat, feign, act, jazz, shams, fish, dupe, sham, playact, seems, fool, jive

2 Syllables

bluffing, shamming, playacted, sucker, shamer, affect, hoodwink, pseudo, mislead, nit-pick, purport, dare-say, profess, kidding, spurious, playacting, claiming, claimed, fudge, seemed, cozen, guessed, posit

3 Syllables

pettifog, fictional, presume, pretended, allege, positing, posited, evaded, stonewall, counterfeit, storify, evading, whitewash, deceive, purported, argufy, constate, disguised, antiqued, professing, suppose, fictive, surmised, chicaning, malinger, presumed, daresay, professes, dissemble, antiquing, assume, purporting, beguile, delude

4 Syllables

make-believe, simulate, masquerade, masquerading, conjecturing, unauthentic, imposturous, imitate, pettifogging, conjectured

5 Syllables

impersonate, dissimulating, dissimulate, paralogize, dissimulated

6 Syllables

hypercriticize, hypocriticalness