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- Dictionaryfeigned/feɪnd/
adjective
- 1. simulated or pretended; insincere: "her eyes widened with feigned shock"
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to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. : You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are. The prosecution claimed that the defendant had feigned the injury. She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to act as if something is true when it is not.
to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. : You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are. The prosecution claimed that the defendant had feigned the injury. She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to act as if something is true when it is not.
1. : fictitious. Was his account actual or feigned? 2. : not genuine or real. showered him with feigned compliments. Synonyms. affected. artificial. assumed. bogus. contrived. factitious. fake. false. forced. mechanical. mock. phony. phoney. plastic. pretended.
1. a. : to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression. feign death. b. : to assert as if true : pretend. He feigned that he was not feeling well so that he could leave the party early. 2. archaic. : invent, imagine. b. : to give fictional representation to. 3. obsolete : disguise, conceal. intransitive verb. : pretend, dissemble.
to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse. to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice. verb (used without object) to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill. feign. / feɪn / verb. to put on a show of (a quality or emotion); pretend. to feign innocence. tr to make up; invent. to feign an excuse.
Feigned definition: pretended; sham; counterfeit. See examples of FEIGNED used in a sentence.
to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. : You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are. The prosecution claimed that the defendant had feigned the injury. She responded to his remarks with feigned amusement. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to act as if something is true when it is not.
