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Pretence

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of pretense.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

See pretense, pretenseful, pretenseless.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See pretense.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. pretending with intention to deceive

n. imaginative intellectual play

n. a false or unsupportable quality

n. an artful or simulated semblance

n. the act of giving a false appearance

Word Usage

"WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_"

Equivalent

pretenceful pretenceless

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

imagery imagination mental imagery imaging artificiality colour color semblance gloss

Variant

pretense pretenseful pretenseless

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pretense pretext affectation semblance excuse vanity falsehood notion subterfuge pretension