feign

(Anglais)

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/feɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: feynen

Appartenant à français: feignant

In summary

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.

Concepts

feindre

simuler

faire semblant

affecter

faire semblant de

minauder

inventer

faire passer pour

prétendre

prétexter

faire l’hypocrite

donner pour

se prétendre

se donner pour

pretendre

Synonymes

pretend

simulate

sham

affect

fake

pose

dissemble

assume

put on airs

attitudinize

make believe

purport

dissimulate

act

copy

counterfeit

delude

disguise

dupe

falsely

forge

impersonate

influence

make-believe

move

stir

make like

invent

make as if

fable

find an excuse

make out

masquerade

pretend to do good

personate

playact

decorate

deceive

profess

clone

cant

reproduce

bluff

simper

adorn

stage

falsify

feint

pretend to be good

humbug

Traductions

fingir

vortäuschen

fingere

vorgeben

simulare

fingieren

sich den Anschein geben

spielen

veinzen

gespreitzt tun

sich zieren

simulieren

affektieren

sich geziert benehmen

sich unnatürlich benehmen