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I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.
Paul Haggis

Meaning of "pretended" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRETENDED

pretended  [prɪˈtɛndɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRETENDED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pretended is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRETENDED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pretending

Pretending or Pretend may refer to: ▪ Role-playing, refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role ▪ "Pretending", a 1946 song with music and lyrics by Al Sherman and Marty Symes ▪ "Pretending", a 1989 rock song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams ▪ "Pretending", a song by the Finnish band HIM released in 2001 ▪ "Pretending", a song by the cast of Glee from Glee: The Music, Volume 6 ▪ "Pretend", a 1952 popular song, written by Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman, and Frank Levere ▪ "Pretend", a song by Cheri Dennis from In and Out of Love ▪ "Pretend", a song by Lights from The Listening ▪ Pretending, known as Ugly Me in the U.S., 2006 Chilean romantic comedy film...

Definition of pretended in the English dictionary

The definition of pretended in the dictionary is fanciful; make-believe; simulated.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRETENDED


blended
ˈblɛndɪd
distended
dɪsˈtɛndɪd
extended
ɪkˈstɛndɪd
inextended
ˌɪnɪkˈstɛndɪd
intended
ɪnˈtɛndɪd
offended
əˈfɛndɪd
overextended
ˌəʊvərɪkˈstɛndɪd
recommended
ˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd
splendid
ˈsplɛndɪd
unamended
ˌʌnəˈmɛndɪd
unattended
ˌʌnəˈtɛndɪd
unblended
ʌnˈblɛndɪd
undefended
ˌʌndɪˈfɛndɪd
undescended
ˌʌndɪˈsɛndɪd
unexpended
ˌʌnɪkˈspɛndɪd
unextended
ˌʌnɪkˈstɛndɪd
unfriended
ʌnˈfrɛndɪd
unintended
ˌʌnɪnˈtɛndɪd
unrecommended
ʌnˌrɛkəˈmɛndɪd
untended
ʌnˈtɛndɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRETENDED

preteen
pretelevision
pretence
pretenceless
pretend
pretendant
pretendedly
pretendent
pretender
pretendership
pretendingly
pretense
pretension
pretensionless
pretensive
pretentious
pretentiously
pretentiousness
preterhuman
preterist

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRETENDED

bended
branded
descended
expanded
minded
open-ended
rounded
single-ended
unapprehended
unascended
unbefriended
uncommended
unended
unmended
unoffended
unsuspended
upended
well-attended
well-defended
well-recommended

Synonyms and antonyms of pretended in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRETENDED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pretended» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pretended

Translation of «pretended» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRETENDED

Find out the translation of pretended to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pretended from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pretended» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

假装
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pretendido
570 millions of speakers

English

pretended
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाटक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تظاهر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

притворился
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fingia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কৃত্রিম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

feint
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berpura-pura
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ふり
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyamar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giả vờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடித்தீர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढोंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sahte
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

finto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

udawał
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прикинувся
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prefăcut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσποιήθηκε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorgegee
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

låts
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lot
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pretended

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETENDED»

The term «pretended» is very widely used and occupies the 14.915 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETENDED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pretended» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pretended» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pretended

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10 QUOTES WITH «PRETENDED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pretended.
1
Aneurin Barnard
I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
2
Arthur Bremer
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
3
Justin Chon
When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear.
4
Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
5
Lou Doillon
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
6
Josh Fox
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.
7
John Gay
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
8
Cary Grant
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
9
Brian Grazer
The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.
10
Paul Haggis
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETENDED»

Discover the use of pretended in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pretended and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-century ...
The Pretended Asian also traces Psalmanazar's later career as a Grub Street hack writer and how his lifelong refusal to reveal his real identity - even after Europeans stopped believing he was a native of Formosa - may have rendered ...
Michael Keevak, 2004
2
The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
She reveals how the story of Sebastian, supposedly in hiding and planning to return to claim his crown, was lodged among other familiar stories: prophecies of returned leaders, nuns kept against their will, kidnappings by Moors, miraculous ...
Ruth MacKay, 2012
3
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was : Myths of ...
Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity. These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day.
Wendy Doniger Mircea Eliade Distinguished Professor of the History of Religions University of Chicago, 2004
4
The woman who pretended to be who she was: myths of ...
In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value.
Wendy Doniger, 2005
5
The Sense of an Englishman on the Pretended Coalition of ...
Opposing the admission of Tory interests to the government; specifically directed against Bolingbroke, who supported the impeachment of the Whig lords for their share in the partition treaties.
‎1735
6
Conscience, Liberty and God's Word: A Free Disputation ...
Or does the Word of God, as contained in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, have the first and final word?These and many other questions of a similar nature are addressed in this book Conscience, Liberty and God's Word (previously ...
Samuel Rutherford, Greg Price, 2011
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The Pretended Expedient: In a Letter to the Author. Shewing ...
t<5]. Thefirftthe Archbifhop has efFeftually anfweredby a Solemn Opening -of the Convocation without any Marks of Difpleafure. As for your fecond, I believe both Parties would be glad to have a warmer Room to fit and debate in, then H, VH's.
William Sherlock, 1702
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The Sources of the Mississippi - Their Discoverers, Real and ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition.
James H. Baker, 2009
9
Examination of the Validity of the Pretended Charters of the ...
In a Review of the Decision of the Superior Court in the Case of Gabriel Furman, Ex., and Others, Against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New -York B. S.. spective names, styles and titles of former kings and queens, our ...
B. S., 1852
10
The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in ...
The assembly goes on, and abolishes the haill bishops of Scotland be their acts, as follows : The generall Assemblie haveing heard the lybells, and complaints, given in against Mr. John Spot- iswood pretended archbishop of St. Andrews, Mr.
John Spalding, 1828

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETENDED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pretended is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pensioner burgled by thieves who pretended they were checking …
A pensioner has been burgled by thieves who pretended they were checking insulation inside his home. The burglary, at 9am on Monday, took ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
2
IMPD searching for man who pretended to be a police officer in …
They're searching for a man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer and pulled a woman over near Castleton Square Mall over the ... «Fox 59, Jul 15»
3
St Helens pervert pretended to be teen to get boys to send him …
A St Helens pervert who pretended to be a teenager in a bid to get boys to send him explicit pictures was stopped in his tracks by suspicious ... «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»
4
Dublin man pretended to be travel agent and scammed €27k from …
A man who stole over €27,000 from friends and acquaintances by selling them bogus package holidays has been given a two year suspended ... «Sunday World, Jul 15»
5
Man accused of voyeurism pretended to be hair stylist
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A man who allegedly pretended to be a hair dresser so he could take sexually explicit photos of his clients has been ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
6
How Omisore, Odumakin decieved Osogbo hotel, pretended to be …
Fresh facts have emerged on how the defeated governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2014 election Iyiola Omisore ... «Osun Defender, Jul 15»
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10 places UBC has pretended to be on screen
10 places UBC has pretended to be on screen. By: Jack Hauen July 24, 2015, 10:08pm PDT. File photo Will McDonald / The Ubyssey ... «Ubyssey Online, Jul 15»
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Why Jharkhand Education Minister Neera Yadav pretended APJ …
She also said: “I did not want to hurt the children's feelings so I applied vermilion and inaugurated the smart class. As soon as I left the school, ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
9
Plymouth man pretended he was a millionaire to con family to open …
A shameless conman fleeced his own mother and family out of cash by pretending to be a millionaire in a doomed bid to open a nightclub. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
That time a Dutch warship pretended to be an island to evade the …
Sometimes in life, the guy with the drunken, so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas hits one out of the park and saves the day. This is clearly what ... «We Are The Mighty, Jul 15»

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