feign

Betekenis (Engels)

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
To hide or conceal.

feign

pretend

simulate

sham

affect

fake

pose

dissemble

attitudinize

put on airs

assume

make believe

purport

dissimulate

influence

move

stir

copy

counterfeit

forge

make like

falsely

make-believe

disguise

act

delude

dupe

impersonate

act as if

falsify

imitate

reproduce

deceive

humbug

pretend to be good

pretend to do good

clone

fable

feint

cant

profess

masquerade

playact

find an excuse

stage

invent

simper

bluff

pose as

make out

adorn

decorate

personate

make as if

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/feɪn/

From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint and fiction.