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Synonyms for feign
feɪnfeign
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
feign
The distinctive idea of assume is to take by one's own independent volition, whether well or ill, rightfully or wrongfully. One may accept an obligation or assume an authority that properly belongs to him, or he may assume an obligation or indebtedness that could not be required of him. He may assume authority or office that is his right; if he assumes what does not belong to him, he is said to arrogate or usurp it. A man may usurp the substance of power in the most unpretending way; what he arrogates to himself he assumes with a haughty and overbearing manner. One assumes the robes or insignia of office by putting them on, with or without right. If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes. What a debater postulates he openly states and takes for granted without proof; what he assumes he may take for granted without mention. A favorite trick of the sophist is quietly to assume as true what would at once be challenged if expressly stated. What a man claims he asserts his right to take; what he assumes he takes.
Synonyms:
accept, affect, appropriate, arrogate, assume, claim, postulate, presume, pretend, put on, take, usurp
Princeton's WordNet
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissembleverb
make believe with the intent to deceive
"He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
Synonyms:
bear upon, make believe, mask, touch, cloak, touch on, strike, dissemble, move, assume, involve, pretend, venture, simulate, impress, affect, hazard, act, impact, sham, guess, profess, bear on, regard, makesimulate, assume, sham, feignverb
make a pretence of
"She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
Synonyms:
pretend, adopt, take for granted, arrogate, get into, accept, strike, dissemble, take on, imitate, acquire, usurp, simulate, assume, put on, presume, affect, take, model, sham, take over, seize, don, take up, bear, wear, copy
Dictionary of English Synonymes
feignverb
feignverb
Synonyms:
counterfeit, dissemble, affect, pretend to, make a show of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#132 | make | |
#246 | take | |
#476 | model | |
#552 | act | |
#1016 | copy | |
#1142 | move | |
#1152 | appropriate | |
#1336 | impact | |
#1893 | accept | |
#2022 | claim | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2490 | bear | |
#2664 | wear | |
#2773 | guess | |
#2982 | don | |
#3140 | affect | |
#3354 | assume | |
#3876 | regard | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4513 | venture | |
#5419 | involve | |
#5519 | mask | |
#5639 | adopt | |
#6810 | acquire | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#13188 | pretend | |
#16236 | impress | |
#17114 | simulate | |
#18031 | seize | |
#20014 | sham | |
#21182 | cloak | |
#22857 | presume | |
#32164 | imitate | |
#38812 | profess | |
#48394 | postulate | |
#73258 | usurp | |
#91169 | feign | |
#181493 | dissemble | |
#248023 | arrogate |
How to use feign in a sentence?
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America.
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
Translations for feign
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- اختلقArabic
- заблуждавам, преструвам се, симулирам, измислямBulgarian
- fingirCatalan, Valencian
- simulereDanish
- vortäuschen, verbergen, vorgeben, ausdenken, verheimlichen, fingieren, vormachenGerman
- προσποιούμαιGreek
- ŝajnigiEsperanto
- fingir, imaginar, inventarSpanish
- جعل کردنPersian
- peitellä, teeskennellä, salataFinnish
- feindreFrench
- leig airScottish Gaelic
- बहाना करनाHindi
- կեղծելArmenian
- bluffare, dissimulare, fingereItalian
- לְהַעֲמִיד פָּנִיםHebrew
- 見せ掛ける, 装うJapanese
- ನೆಪKannada
- fingereLatin
- whakakikoikaMāori
- veinzen, verbergen, fingeren, verzwijgen, inbeelden, voorwendenDutch
- simulere, spilleNorwegian
- inventar, omitir, fingirPortuguese
- прятать, притворяться, выдумывать, прикидываться, симулировать, скрыватьRussian
- hycklaSwedish
- போலிTamil
- giả vờVietnamese
- 假装Chinese
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