feign

Senso (Inglese)

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.
4. To hide or conceal.

sinonimi

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

imitate

act as if

pose as

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/feɪn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: feynen

Affine francese: 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.