fingere

Meaning

1. (transitive) to pretend; to feign; to dissemble
2. (transitive) to pretend, imagine, or suppose (that)
3. (literary, transitive) to shape or model

Concepts

pretend

feign

affect

dissemble

fake

sham

dissimulate

simulate

play-act

to feign

act

assume

complete

conclude

end

🔚

finish

make as if

stop

🛑

Synonyms

simulare

fignere

dissimulare

fare la finta

terminare

🔚

trasformare

far finta

fare finta

fare il furbo

fare l'ipocrita

affettare

fare finta simulare

concludere

fare

finire

Translations

fingir

feindre

fingir

vorgeben

vortäuschen

fingir

faire semblant

veinzen

heucheln

simuler

simular

fingieren

voorwenden

simulieren

يتظاهر

Hyphenated as

fìn‧ge‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfin.d͡ʒe.re/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fingere (“to fashion, make up”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”).