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Verb
▲
Make a show of
daydream
dream
fantasiseUK
fantasizeUS
pretend
imagine
play
play-act
bluff
counterfeit
enact
fake
fancy
feign
fool
muse
playact
romance
simulate
indulge in fantasy
act as if
act as though
build castles in Spain
let on like
make as if
play the part
build castles in the air
act
impersonate
suppose
more ❯
“A group of little girls slap makeup on a friend and make her the bride in a make believe wedding.”
Verb
▲
To make a supposition for determining its consequences
say
assume
imagine
suppose
hypothesiseUK
hypothesizeUS
presume
presuppose
fancy
infer
picture
visualiseUK
visualizeUS
envision
take as a hypothesis
dream
preconceive
supposing
envisage
see
conceive
image
fantasizeUS
conceit
ideate
vision
fantasy
conjure up
build castles in air
fantasiseUK
muse
woolgather
moon
romanticizeUS
contrive
indulge in fantasy
romanticiseUK
see visions
head trip
trip out
indulge in wool-gathering
live in a dream world
indulge in fancy
build castles in Spain
give free rein to the imagination
build castles in the air
concoct
frame
create
scheme
cook up
think
anticipate
ponder
consider
predict
regard
foresee
apprehend
objectify
realizeUS
realiseUK
ruminate
interpret
trump up
forecast
plan
think about
behold
believe
figure
pioneer
innovate
hatch
formulate
brainstorm
spark
speculate
spark off
represent
portray
appreciate
concretize
thingify
reflect
object
depicture
call up
get the picture
conjure up an picture of
foretell
guess
surmise
conjecture
propose
expect
intend
consider the possibility of
entertain the thought of
reckon
suspect
grasp
externalizeUS
materializeUS
survey
mean
meditate
gather
debate
entertain
materialiseUK
externaliseUK
construe
prophesy
augur
reify
discover
look upon
conjure
cultivate
foreshow
previse
prognosticate
presage
see in one's mind's eye
give thought to
form
be under the impression
think likely
be of the view
be of the opinion
be inclined to think
have an idea
think it conceivable
think it likely
take
perform
take to mean
devise
draftUS
long
hanker
pine
lust
crave
idealizeUS
bring
throw together
drum up
outline
carry out
throw up
choreograph
put up
develop
coin
turn out
plot
draw up
strategize
thrash out
decide
model
crank out
brew
draughtUK
cobble together
tailor
get
put together
start up
carve out
run up
arrange
come up with
obtain
work on
hammer out
manufacture
lay out
grind out
churn out
determine
wish to
have as one's aim
hanker after
thirst after
set one's heart on
seek to
thirst for
pipe dream
aspire to
desire to
hunger for
conjure up pictures
aim for
idealiseUK
set one's sights on
long for
sigh
have as one's goal
yearn for
hope for
wish for
more ❯
Verb
▲
To do something in a mechanical, unreflective manner, especially as a matter of routine and without commitment or enthusiasm
put on
adopt
change into
don
dress in
fake
get into
play-act
pretend
pull
wear
act
affect
assume
bluff
confound
confuse
counterfeit
deceive
feign
masquerade
playact
pose
put on a front
put on an act
sham
simulate
strike
take on
trick
more ❯
Verb
▲
To conceal or disguise (one's thoughts, feelings, or character)
dissimulate
pretend
dissemble
feign
conceal
disguise
hide
mask
act
bluff
camouflage
cloak
counterfeit
deceive
fake
masquerade
pose
posture
sham
beard
lie
make-believe
obscure
suppress
veil
let on
make out
be dishonest
dress up
make a pretense
make a show
put on an act
put up a front
go through the motions
present a false face
present a false front
put on a false front
affect
profess
simulate
claim
attitudinize
showboat
pass off
cop an attitude
playact
impersonate
purport
strike a pose
take off as
make out like
disguise yourself
strike an attitude
behave affectedly
play the part of
peacock
put on airs
show off
grandstand
assume
put on
pass for
allege
falsify
mislead
whitewash
stonewall
shuck and jive
act as if
aspire
lay claim
jazz
cozen
claim falsely
jive
pass yourself off as
fake out
sucker
delude
fudge
be deceitful
beguile
malinger
fool
hoodwink
be hypocritical
dupe
cheat
fish
shroud
cover up
doublespeak
cover
play-act
pass
pussyfoot
four-flush
signify
double-talk
put on a front
put up a smoke screen
make like
play possum
more ❯
Verb
▲
To make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fool
jest
joke
kid
act
fake
feign
pretend
sham
banter
chaff
fun
gag
jape
jive
jolly
josh
mess
quip
tease
wisecrack
yuck
yuk
counterfeit
clown about
clown around
mess about
play tricks
mess around
play the fool
put on an act
have someone on
muck around
muck someone about
wind someone up
flout at
put down
take the piss out of
scorn
scout
pan
bait
goad
pick on
annoy
pillory
harass
heckle
travesty
sneer at
pooh-pooh
skewer
humiliate
make a joke
chiack
raz
cartoon
fleer
shoot down
hold up to ridicule
make a fool of
pester
badger
disturb
give a hard time
dog
nudge
lead on
knock
play with words
insult
burlesque
hector
kid around
contemn
torment
sledge
rot
heap scorn on
show up
slam
crack jokes
deflate
takeoff
expose
unmask
treat with contempt
poke fun
cock a snook at
run down
call names
make a game of
poke borak at
rail at
make a laughing-stock
crack
expose to ridicule
hold up to shame
flitter
frazzle
raspberry
make someone a laughing stock
laugh out of court
laugh to scorn
criticizeUS
disdain
disparage
stay
pull your leg
ridge
bone
worry
plague
provoke
take off
censure
slight
dismiss
detract
denigrate
aggravate
vex
clown
vilify
hassle
bedevil
caricaturize
diss
pasquinade
squib
tantalizeUS
titillate
dis
detract from
lout
revel
devil
arouse
swipe at
be at
importune
lead somebody on
irritate
tantaliseUK
manipulate
harry
encourage
gnaw
sound
beleaguer
excite
flirt with
snap
criticiseUK
pour scorn on
dump on
do a number on
horse around
make merry
play the clown
abuse
catcall
hiss
interrupt
boo
barrack
shout disapproval
shout down
shout at
jab
shout disapproval at
comeback
dig
hiss at
boo at
hoot at
blow raspberries
whistle at
hoot
snipe
catcall at
blow raspberries at
give someone a hard time
make a crack
more ❯
Verb
▲
To outwardly look or be perceived as
make
appear
seem
be
look
pass for
pretend to be
resemble
take after
bear a resemblance to
be similar to
come across as
come off as
correspond to
give impression of being
give the idea
give the impression
have signs of
have the appearance
look a lot
look as if
make as if
remind one of
strike one as
be the very picture of
feel
have earmarks of
have hallmarks of
Verb
▲
To contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
invent
concoct
fabricate
devise
make up
manufacture
construct
contrive
excogitate
fake
forge
falsify
feign
hatch
trump up
cook up
drum up
equivocate
fib
lie
misrepresent
misstate
pretend
prevaricate
simulate
think up
vamp
vamp up
dream up
conjure up
tell untruth
tell a white lie
create out of thin air
more ❯
Verb
▲
To imitate (someone or their actions or words), especially in order to entertain or ridicule
mimic
imitate
do
ape
caricature
copy
parody
impersonate
mock
burlesque
travesty
satiriseUK
satirizeUS
spoof
copycat
emulate
lampoon
mime
monkey
send up
take off
act
ditto
enact
fake
make fun of
pantomime
parrot
perform
personate
play
represent
ridicule
sham
do an impression of
do an impersonation of
do like
go like
insult
disdain
belittle
bait
slight
goad
slam
torment
pick on
bother
knock
annoy
harass
affront
revile
dis
gird
sniff at
pour scorn on
hoot
dismiss
badger
contemn
provoke
pester
hassle
pull somebody's leg
condemn
spurn
boo
sledge
slang
cock a snook at
treat contemptuously
shuck
denigrate
have on
disturb
despise
plague
detract
outrage
reject
jab
irritate
gibe at
sneeze at
hiss
aggravate
poke borak at
repudiate
shout down
rebuff
decry
show contempt for
slag off
disrespect
yuck
yuk
dump on
call names
give someone a hard time
hold in contempt
look down on
hector
abuse
dog
nudge
denounce
disregard
interrupt
catcall
vilify
lead on
give a hard time
barrack
discount
lout
offend
bedevil
fool around
defy
worry
dig
hound
tantalizeUS
crucify
tantaliseUK
show contempt
harry
discredit
shout disapproval
shout at
slur
make light of
crack
underrate
swipe
dump
grin
leer
snub
snigger
be scornful about
vex
ignore
swipe at
blow raspberries
thumb nose at
slap
blow raspberries at
wind someone up
hoax
shun
quip at
rank out
give Bronx cheer
turn up one's nose
turn up your nose at
set up
make fun
snicker
smile
flitter
frazzle
poke
detract from
kid around
cock a snook
get at
tear to pieces
make a joke of
reproach
upbraid
twitter
fun at
do a number on
persecute
snicker at
snigger at
raspberry
disrupt
curl one's lip
disbelieve
smile at
pun
sally
fleer at
scout at
irk
torture
nark
gall
thumb one's nose
have a joke with
dig at
play down
brush aside
get
nag
anger
discomfit
bully
faze
disconcert
rattle
embarrass
chivy
hoodwink
trick
deceive
beguile
hack you off
wipe
wave aside
make little of
undermine
slam-dunk
get on the nerves of
be on the back of
butt in
shout catcalls at
make game of
con
bamboozle
gull
cozen
whistle
get in the hair of
violate
contravene
rebel against
disobey
break
go against
infringe
breach
high-hat
snoot
be contemptuous of
reprehend
infract
refuse to obey
express contempt
wound
be contemptuous about
be above
misprize
libel
reprobate
take in
flimflam
mislead
yank somebody's chain
transgress against
treat with disdain
consider beneath one
spit on
refuse
refute
piss over
confute
avoid
abhor
hate
turn back on
trash
curl your lip at
turn nose up at
give the Bronx cheer to
consider beneath you
spit in the face of
renounce
look down upon
piss on
turn down
spit in the eye of
hold up to scorn
malign
slander
snipe
catcall at
shout disapproval at
comeback
hiss at
boo at
hoot at
whistle at
rap
defame
fail to observe
kick against
mess
make cutting remarks about
say contemptuously
turn up your nose
skin
utter catcalls
spit
susurrate
rasp
whirr
disapprove
rustle
whisper
seethe
siss
murmur
blow
commit a breach of
set at naught
fail to comply with
laugh in the face of
fly in the face of
impugn
injure
poke fun
curl one's lip at
frolic
gambol
hurt
mortify
calumniate
be in breach of
stultify
cut up
make a crack
turn your nose up at
be rude to
cause offence to
trash-talk
miscall
displease
bad-mouth
call someone names
titillate
give a rough time
cast aspersions on
asperse
derogate
shuck someone
mess someone around
make a monkey out of someone
rot someone
mess about
mess someone about
put someone on
fool about
play a prank
have someone on
play the fool
play a practical joke
play tricks
play a joke
play a trick
importune
manipulate
encourage
devil
arouse
gnaw
sound
beleaguer
excite
snap
dishonorUS
underestimate
give offence to
step on one's toes
curse
upset
disoblige
cut dead
debase
hurt someone's feelings
blister
treat disrespectfully
dishonourUK
abase
give someone the cold-shoulder
degrade
cut to the quick
flirt with
be at
make ridiculous
make absurd
lead somebody on
stigmatizeUS
brand
attack
lambaste
savage
bash
flay
rubbish
hammer
monster
lash
slate
bag
pummelUS
find fault with
heap
excoriate
slash
stigmatiseUK
pummelledUK
lay into
take apart
give a bad press to
take to pieces
show someone up
cast a slur on
more ❯
Verb
▲
To tell an untruth or falsehood
lie
fib
fabricate
prevaricate
dissimulate
deceive
delude
falsify
mislead
bluff
exaggerate
misrepresent
con
dissemble
equivocate
hoax
hoodwink
misinform
perjure
pretend
beguile
dupe
misguide
misspeak
misstate
trick
bull
distort
forswear
fudge
gaslight
misinstruct
overdraw
palter
pervert
snow
tell a falsehood
tell an untruth
be untruthful
concoct a story
depart from the truth
stretch the truth
string along
tell a lie
tell stories
bear false witness
be economical with the truth
be forsworn
break promise
commit perjury
fake it
forswear oneself
have on
make up a story
not speak the truth
not tell the truth
perjure oneself
put on the wrong track
say something untrue
tell untruths
throw off the scent
forswear yourself
invent a story
perjure yourself
put on
put up a front
send on a wild goose chase
tell a terminological inexactitude
frame someone
lead astray
BS
tell a white lie
lack candor
gyp
stiff
diddle
sting
fleece
finagle
mulct
screw
euchre
entrap
shortchange
beat
chisel
hustle
skin
take advantage of
bleed
swizzle
take to the cleaners
chouse
pluck
short
stick
ream
sharp
sell a pup to
squeeze
shake down
skunk
thimblerig
nobble
do in
exploit
outmanoeuvreUK
outmaneuverUS
chicane
circumvent
do the dirty on
stitch up
disappoint
sandbag
befool
let down
milk
make a fool of
fail
two-time
embezzle
juke
trap
sell
decoy
sell down the river
thwart
defeat
break faith with
outsmart
fox
frustrate
wheedle
gazump
cross
clip
take
bewilder
double-deal
sell out
outgeneral
baffle
pull a fast one
enchant
captivate
set up
bewitch
sweet-talk
be disloyal to
be unfaithful to
play false
foil
allure
swizz
outslick
outjockey
goldbrick
coax
rob
manoeuvreUK
backstab
solicit
outdo
gouge
outthink
steal a march on
cajole
hook
outguess
top
maneuverUS
goose
worst
jip
cap
induce
pull somebody's leg
sell a pup
get the better of
screw over
stab in the back
end run
figure out
dissatisfy
attract
upset
discourage
hypnotizeUS
charm
soft-soap
dispirit
mesmerizeUS
woo
disillusion
disgruntle
jockey
vex
dismay
dishearten
sadden
disconcert
dumbfound
catch out
depress
joke
cuckold
short-change
chagrin
disenchant
fascinate
snare
butter up
hypnotiseUK
mesmeriseUK
outplay
out-think
persuade
tease
stump
tantalizeUS
overcome
step out
play someone false
double deal
play away
banter
jolly
trim
have someone on
fall short of expectations
pull fast one
get round
ruin
jerk around
frame
tantaliseUK
steer
get around
run rings round
be unfaithful
do out of
be cleverer than
make rings round
be disloyal
come on
run a game on
do someone in the eye
go back on
sell a bill of goods to
troll
make a monkey of
make somebody look an idiot
do someone dirty
impose
lead off
deke
stretch the rules
bend the rules
pull something funny
stack the cards
hit below the belt
slip something over on
pull in
use
flirt
trifle
dally
outperform
toy
pilfer
dust
coquet
wanton
defy
pull something
throw
sway
play dirty
entrance
overcharge
rush
play a trick on
rebel against
disobey
dazzle
blind
spellbind
make a sucker of
wangle
impress
give the runaround
make a fool of somebody
catfish
send on a wild-goose chase
win over
lirt
blench
rogue
belirt
toy with
trifle with
dally with
play with
bleed dry
lead somebody down the garden path
wind up
go one better than
pull someone's leg
bilk of
extort
take to the cleaner's
do number on
sucker into
split
pull wool over
flam
play a jest on
play a prank on
play a joke on
murphy
take out
fast talk
challenge
play for a fool
ravish
titillate
play a practical joke on
give bum steer
break the rules
hocus-pocus
make use of
impose upon
take for
cross up
play games with
put one over on someone
shave
finesse
take to cleaners
play joke on
beat out of
take for ride
pull a fast one on someone
be sold a pup
sell a bill of goods
draw
bribe
pull
invite
string someone along
distract
toll
ensorcell
tout
egg one on
shill
wile
play games
stage-manage
pull strings
pull wires
anger
twist around your little finger
play for a sucker
obsess
annoy
best
disaffect
stupefy
net
play fast and loose with
displease
enrapture
besot
yuck
yuk
jest
jape
fun
josh
quip
gag
wisecrack
chaff
aggrieve
capture
infatuate
bypass
irritate
disquiet
seize
blandish
flatter
exasperate
discontent
snarl
embroil
ensnarl
break your word
break one's word
make sport of
rag
poke fun at
ridicule
make fun of
yank somebody's chain
bother
fail to satisfy
bag
immesh
mesh
entoil
tangle
palaver
avoid
skirt
springe
ambush
snag
urge
talk into
bootlick
soften
stroke
crowd
oil
prevail on
push
influence
brownnose
soap
disoblige
dash
detour
circumnavigate
shortcut
sweep you off your feet
catch up
duck
end-run
outflank
founder
put out
ruin prospects
shatter the illusions of
stand up
fall short of
bum out
leave in the lurch
baulkUK
embitter
dash the hopes of
come to nothing
balkUS
miscarry
fall flat
dampen the spirits of
bungle
bat eyes at
bring to naught
not show
dash hopes
abort
cast down
torment
fall short
fall down on
get past
prevent
queer
crimp
cramp
shun
stymie
rub the right way
work over
make up to
suck up to
play up to
get next to
lay it on thick
spread it on
hand a line
work on
sweeten up
argue into
apple polish
steer clear of
stave off
get out of
ward off
find a way round
denounce
inform against
shop
give away
finger
inform on
pool
turn traitor
abandon
grass on
job
dob in
desert
shelf
sell the pass
squeak on
peach on
squeal on
split on
delate
jilt
rat on
forsake
bite the hand that feeds you
grass
give up
give someone a Judas kiss
sneak on
knife
commit treason
walk out on
drop the dime on
point the bone at
pimp on
break with
dob on
turn in
be a Judas to
turn informer
hand over
turn state's evidence
blow the whistle on
bite the hand that feeds one
put the finger on
rat out
drop a dime on
blow the whistle
break trust
be treacherous to
deliver up
play Judas
grass up
break faith
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Not existing in reality
incredible
fictitious
fictional
mythical
contrived
fantastical
mythic
fantastic
imaginary
unreal
make-believe
unheard of
made-up
pretend
fanciful
imagined
invented
fabulous
chimerical
fake
false
fantasied
visionary
imaginal
phantom
ideal
sham
chimeric
phantasmal
phantasmic
quasi-
insubstantial
weird
virtual
proverbial
abstract
poetic
preposterous
phantasmagorical
invalid
dud
snide
trick
imagal
symbolic
allegorical
dishonest
dreamy
pseud
pseudonymous
storied
mistaken
apparitional
spectral
apparent
semblant
deceitful
thought up
hyped up
phoney-baloney
fool's paradise
quack
aerial
blue-sky
idealisedUK
created
phony-baloney
out of this world
all in one's head
highly colored
surreal
vain
unfounded
practice
trial
symbolical
adopted
mimetic
prepared
fishy
conceived
unqualified
dreamt up
estimated
academic
all in the mind
simulation
in your head
echoic
copycat
manmade
derivative
imitated
copy
hokey
apish
quasi
broken
incorrect
useless
hoax
not what it is cracked up to be
illegal
duplicate
lookalike
double-dealing
actorly
dissembling
worthless
unattainable
professed
purported
ethereal
mock-up
representative
fantasizedUS
dream
unworkable
ivory-towered
unachievable
unfeasible
impracticable
impractical
Utopian
famed
alleged
fashioned
cooked-up
made
mercurial
far-fetched
hypocritical
parabolic
famous
play-play
transcendental
in the clouds
pie-in-the-sky
unearthly
high-flown
out-of-reach
ivory-tower
mental
transcendent
abnormal
ridiculous
curious
avowed
meretricious
fantasisedUK
tall
unusual
strange
odd
wonderful
outstanding
remarkable
epic
important
impressive
bluffing
shammed
falsified
masked
lying
impostrous
in name only
charlatan
cheating
covered
concealed
dissimulated
imposturous
adulterine
capricious
crackpot
irregular
offbeat
flakeyUS
unlikely
kinky
cock and bull
hard to swallow
blue sky
flakyUK
hard to take
pipe dream
far out
pie in the sky
castles in the air
fairy tale
floating
on cloud nine
framed
bum
ungenuine
pirate
bent
freakish
anomalous
bizarre
aberrant
atypical
uncommon
untypical
unorthodox
freak
peculiar
perverted
divergent
uncanny
deviant
perverse
aberrational
devious
exceptional
supernatural
non-typical
outlandish
deviate
unaccountable
preternatural
laboredUS
inexplicable
surprising
labouredUK
outrageous
contrary
unconforming
freaky
paranormal
eerie
staged
intangible
immaterial
nebulous
impalpable
reachy
erroneous
speculative
vague
spiritual
unsound
deceiving
incorporeal
conceptual
conjectural
metaphysical
ghostly
airy
bodiless
irrational
illusionary
discarnate
theoretic
deluding
beguiling
illogical
sophistical
ungrounded
wrong
otherworldly
inaccurate
unbodied
vaporous
inexact
untruthful
nightmarish
psychedelic
faulty
non-physical
suppositional
unsubstantiated
misguided
distorted
flawed
unreasonable
putative
baseless
groundless
nonphysical
nonmaterial
ideational
imprecise
imponderable
Kafkaesque
conjectured
unrealistic
mythologic
off
without foundation
oneiric
ghostlike
dim
unclear
indistinct
disembodied
unembodied
untouchable
intellectual
formless
wraithlike
philosophical
subconscious
inexistent
subjective
unconscious
idle
psychological
counterfactual
truthless
improper
disincarnate
tenuous
foundationless
unproven
casuistic
misrepresentative
coloredUS
abstruse
psychosomatic
unsupported
uncorroborated
unconfirmed
recondite
imperceptible to the touch
slender
misinformed
colouredUK
ill-founded
indefinite
gone
improbable
questionable
sophistic
unpractical
numinous
mystical
nonconcrete
without basis
indeterminate
uncertain
mad
unreasoned
unworldly
reasonless
doubtful
in the mind
falsie
way off
implausible
phantasmagorial
kaleidoscopic
phantasmagorian
unread
mocking
filled with dreams
delusional
hollow
Barmecidal
Barmecide
float
wistful
chimeral
acted
non-material
trancelike
trance-like
invisible
dream-filled
nonnatural
suppositive
misty
hazy
off the mark
non-natural
larger-than-life
dicey
iffy
contrary to fact
stress-related
stress-induced
uncorporeal
dodgy
filigree
diaphanous
inane
faint
dreamish
hypnagogic
off beam
full of holes
way off beam
extraterrestrial
ancient
elusive
evanescent
lacking substance
engineered
other-worldly
counterfeited
rare
evasive
imperceptible
unobservable
insensible
slight
unquantifiable
inappreciable
eluding
evading
unapparent
unsure
dubious
unverifiable
related
told
customary
unhistoric
unhistorical
handed-down
pinchbeck
non-viable
starry-eyed
silly
impossible
untested
unverified
unwarranted
unjustified
unattested
indescribable
indefinable
nonmaterialistic
celestial
extramundane
religious
foolish
senseless
idealistic
half-baked
obscure
essential
deep
basic
fundamental
perfectionist
expressive
absent
wanting
lacking
missing
nonvalid
unreliable
profound
universal
esoteric
creative
supersensory
daydreaming
astral
daydreamy
crazy
potty
academical
presumed
ephemeral
gratuitous
bottomless
mendacious
uncalled-for
off-base
oversubtle
dead
flimsy
empty
blank
departed
extinguished
vacant
void
null
gossamery
defunct
negative
lost
perished
extinct
not applicable
naive
nonrealistic
not sensible
nonsensical
fresh
exotic
original
infirm
petty
decrepit
puny
fly-by-night
supramundane
superhuman
jesuitic
unfleshly
supermundane
difficult
philosophic
unphysical
suprahuman
ontological
superior
eternal
supranatural
inspired
artistic
inventive
eccentric
fancy
quirky
originative
flighty
perceptual
presupposed
provisory
casual
contestable
disputable
assumptive
stochastic
debatable
postulated
problematic
contingent
equivocal
conditional
conjecturable
refutable
guessed
presumptive
suspect
proposed
pretending
artful
brilliant
unconventional
radical
fertile
ingenious
genius
experimental
innovative
keen
not backed up by evidence
innovational
vivid
revolutionary
astute
emotional
subliminal
passed on
passed away
too little too late
far-out
Promethean
head in the clouds
avant-garde
out of touch with reality
null and void
few and far between
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Very unusual or remarkable
extraordinary
remarkable
exceptional
unique
amazing
astonishing
phenomenal
rare
unusual
odd
singular
peculiar
uncommon
curious
strange
surprising
astounding
fantastic
incredible
sensational
miraculous
momentous
notable
prodigious
striking
stunning
unbelievable
arresting
eye-catching
fanciful
improbable
unforgettable
weird
absurd
conspicuous
dubious
noteworthy
preposterous
ridiculous
special
spectacular
stupendous
uncustomary
unrealistic
unwonted
wild
aberrant
aberrated
abnormal
anomalous
atypical
bizarre
doubtful
especial
exceeding
extraordinaire
extravagant
eye-popping
fantastical
freak
funny
grandiose
implausible
irrational
ludicrous
nonsensical
offbeat
out-of-the-way
preternatural
queer
serious
tremendous
unaccustomed
uncanny
unco
unlikely
unprecedented
whimsical
wondrous
amazeballs
staggering
mind-blowing
mind-boggling
jaw-dropping
breathtaking
impressive
awesome
marvellousUK
wonderful
awe-inspiring
eye-opening
marvelousUS
sublime
dazzling
overwhelming
fabulous
startling
brilliant
fascinating
glorious
dramatic
gee-whizz
stupefying
shocking
portentous
outstanding
enthralling
confounding
unheard of
imposing
awful
magnificent
exciting
magical
thrilling
flabbergasting
splendid
blindsiding
dumbfounding
jolting
dumfounding
jarring
heart-stopping
mind-bending
beyond belief
awe-striking
hard to swallow
superhuman
formidable
bewildering
freakish
superior
impossible
outlandish
splendorous
unsettling
unnerving
charming
majestic
electrifying
far-out
memorable
theatrical
exhilarating
enchanting
captivating
grand
empyreal
sensorial
bewitching
blinding
supreme
excellent
superb
fine
baffling
befuddling
great
unforeseen
flustering
freaky
devastating
unannounced
unanticipated
fab
royal
super
providential
unparalleled
stirring
picturesque
inexplicable
unaccountable
distressing
humbling
beautiful
inspiring
hard to believe
intoxicating
monstrous
wonderworking
supermundane
numinous
supranatural
spine-tingling
blissful
heavenly
divine
envigoratingUK
first-rate
first-class
disturbing
disquieting
the utmost
resplendent
fabled
beguiling
invigoratingUS
ethereal
far out
enlightening
fairy-tale
enlivening
stimulating
fairytale-like
dream-filled
some
heart-stirring
theatric
like a dream come true
unspeakable
ineffable
immense
untold
legendary
outrageous
unutterable
unthought of
rad
noticeable
out-of-this-world
questionable
undreamed of
flimsy
incogitable
harebrained
infeasible
reaching
prominent
obvious
marked
distinct
evident
flakeyUS
kooky
unsubstantial
scatterbrained
thin
flakyUK
cockeyed
lamebrained
fishy
screwy
weak
suspect
phoneyUK
phonyUS
salient
manifest
beyond the realm of reason
top drawer
unmistakable
strong
distinctive
clear-cut
visible
difficult to believe
too much
past belief
for the birds
open to doubt
won't hold water
scarcely credible
full of holes
won't wash
kenspeckle
commanding
drop-dead
bodacious
splashy
flamboyant
pronounced
bold
significant
catchy
noisy
grabby
showy
emphatic
clear
perceptible
appreciable
observable
forcible
dynamite
telling
signal
jazzy
cogent
arrestive
compelling
forceful
lofty
powerful
distinguished
more ❯
Noun
▲
An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true
pretenseUS
pretenceUK
acting
sham
faking
feigning
invention
make-believe
simulation
deception
fabrication
act
deceit
dissembling
shamming
dissimulation
falsification
imagination
play-acting
pose
posing
posture
posturing
self-deception
attitudinizing
cant
deceitfulness
duplicity
fraud
fraudulence
hoax
subterfuge
trickery
artifice
charade
dishonesty
falsity
hypocrisy
lying
mendacity
treachery
fakery
falsehood
kidology
putting on an act
simulacrum
false colours
lack of veracity
inflation
grandiosity
superciliousness
pretensions
a put-on
profession
exaggeration
side
dress
stall
snootiness
uppishness
impersonation
a put-up job
fig leaf
schtick
smoke screen
red herring
airs and graces
assumed manners
going Hollywood
showing off
unnatural imitation
putting on airs
false pretense
dumb act
attitude
performance
stance
imposture
mummery
costume
masking
personation
colorUS
colourUK
revel
feint
chaser
hamming
phoneyUK
ploy
phonyUS
dissimilation
sweet talk
soft soap
shuck and jive
pretending
farce
pantomime
parody
hoaxing
bluffing
arrogance
outward appearance
false show
suggestion
claim
likeness
effect
false appearance
showing
travesty
mockery
mimicry
shuffling
evasion
routine
excuse
misrepresentation
double-dealing
stunt
gag
misstatement
wile
allegation
assumption
demand
declaration
ambition
ambitiousness
aspiration
title
maintenance
exterior
look
gloss
impression
window dressing
camouflage
false colors
image
role
mien
put-up job
expression
public image
delusion
bearing
demeanourUK
lie
aspect
figure
disguisement
window-dressing
coloringUS
demeanorUS
colouringUK
snivel
carriage
name
presentation
shell
outside
beard
frontage
layer
manner
outward display
garb
countenance
leaf
mannerism
character
positure
stand
forgery
personality
identity
part
fantasy
jive
phoniness
flimflam
portrayal
daydreaming
dream
unreality
form
burlesque
sell
spoof
fiction
smoke
bluster
self
approximation
blind
light
outward show
dreaming
romancing
fancy
resemblance
personage
person
swindle
similitude
alikeness
seeming
mood
similarity
affinity
aura
feel
feeling
persona
public face
assumed role
stratagem
bravado
scheme
manoeuvreUK
machination
bombast
bragging
snow job
codology
idle boast
story
role-playing
game
maneuverUS
boast
braggadocio
jiving
snow
mere show
scam
fiddle
sting
set-up
fairy tale
fix
hustle
setup
con trick
more ❯
Noun
▲
Deception practiced under a false or assumed character
imposture
misrepresentation
pretenceUK
cheating
dodge
duping
subterfuge
trickery
artifice
blind
charlatanry
con
deceit
deception
flimflam
fraud
fraudulence
hoax
quackery
ruse
scam
swindling
trick
wile
cheat
codology
copy
counterfeit
fabrication
fake
faking
feint
fiddle
forgery
gambit
hocus-pocus
illusion
imitation
impersonation
imposition
kidology
make-believe
manoeuvreUK
maneuverUS
masquerade
phoneyUK
phonyUS
ploy
pretenseUS
pretension
put-on
sell
sham
sleight
spoof
sting
stratagem
swindle
wheeze
con trick
bluff
reproduction
play
dummy
mock-up
expedient
likeness
lookalike
hoodwinking
machination
bait
smokescreen
device
pretext
contrivance
pinchbeck
pirate
rip-off
dupe
knock-off
shift
cover
snare
distraction
replica
simulation
pseudo
four-flusher
junque
gold brick
duck
stall
mock attack
red herring
put-up job
delusion
dissimulation
hypocrisy
craftiness
scheme
lie
game
decoy
leg-pull
set-up
canard
confidence trick
rort
lurk
hokum
bunco
gyp
grift
porky
rig
flanker
Trojan horse
fastie
schlenter
fetch
hogwash
catch
trap
jive
bilk
shuck
mare's-nest
pork pie
hustle
whitewash
malarkey
ride
chicane
gimmick
fallacy
crock
wrinkle
cover-up
fib
story
fast one
fast shuffle
con game
confidence game
snow job
more ❯
Noun
▲
A public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate, colourful costumes, or an outdoor performance of a historical scene
pageant
extravaganza
parade
spectacle
cavalcade
display
procession
show
tableau
play
circus
raree-show
representation
ritual
scene
spectacular
carnival
celebration
charade
exhibition
exposition
fair
make-believe
motorcade
pomp
tableau vivant
presentation
demonstration
performance
expo
more ❯
Noun
▲
The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things
fantasy
imagination
creativity
fancy
invention
originality
contrivance
ideation
imaginativeness
inventiveness
speculation
vision
daydreaming
reverie
chimaeraUK
chimeraUS
fabrication
thought
unreality
visualisationUK
visualizationUS
make-believe
creative thought
flight of fancy
imaginative faculty
conception
daydream
dream
imaginative power
pipe dream
caprice
whim
vagary
impulse
kink
whimsy
quirk
phantasy
humorUS
idea
humourUK
notion
urge
inclination
freak
desire
megrim
conceit
bent
whimsey
bee
crank
vagrancy
maggot
imagery
fad
craze
foible
crotchet
sport
passion
sudden notion
whim-wham
sudden idea
disposition
passing thought
preference
wish
partiality
fondness
attraction
taste
relish
want
predilection
like
liking
longing
yearning
pining
hankering
love
penchant
craving
thirst
need
hunger
ache
illusion
shine
appetite
envisagement
predisposition
eccentricity
delusion
itch
phantasm
peculiarity
picture
thing
hallucination
fantasm
figment
yen
envisioning
mirage
druthers
romancing
eyes for
love affair
sweet tooth
pie in the sky
fool's paradise
more ❯
Noun
▲
An erroneous belief, idea, or conception
illusion
delusion
misconception
fallacy
misapprehension
deception
dream
falsehood
fancy
fantasy
error
falsity
conceit
misbelief
myth
artifice
figment
phantasm
phantasy
unreality
untruth
chimaeraUK
chimeraUS
confusion
daydream
fantasm
invention
misimpression
misjudgement
misjudgment
nonentity
bubble
feeling
hallucination
idea
image
mockery
rainbow
seeming
sensation
sense
trip
vision
false impression
false belief
self-deception
make-believe
mistaken impression
pipe dream
fool's paradise
castles in Spain
castles in the air
head trip
ignis fatuus
mirage
apparition
semblance
paramnesia
ghost
idolism
virtual reality
optical illusion
figment of imagination
ignus fatuus
phantasma
hocus-pocus
deja vu
will-o'-the-wisp
castle in the air
figment of the imagination
reverie
mistake
pie in the sky
imagination
misinterpretation
misconstruction
misunderstanding
fabrication
wraith
miscalculation
castle in Spain
nightmare
phantom
aberration
fiction
mistaken belief
flight of fancy
notion
thought
misreading
vagary
wish
wishful thinking
impression
mix-up
false hope
wrong idea
whim
phantasmagoria
whimsy
mental picture
air castle
imagining
false notion
dreaming
misconstruing
incomprehension
misknowledge
castle in the sky
spectreUK
unrealizable dream
specterUS
trance
heresy
picture
conception
musing
speculation
phantasmagory
visualizationUS
empty wish
eggs in moonshine
creation
wool-gathering
hope
desire
caprice
quirk
misconstrual
airy hope
lie
golden dream
unreal hope
visualisationUK
envisioning
superstition
unrealistic hope
conceptualizationUS
conceiving
self-delusion
smoke and mirrors
flight of imagination
fanciful notion
mind trip
confounding
misreckoning
conceptualisationUK
fond hope
images
incubus
unorthodoxy
production
old wivesʼ tale
fable
empty promise
Xanadu
jam tomorrow
concoction
wrong belief
delirium
improvisation
snare
oversight
lapse
end of the rainbow
vanity
monstrosity
monster
bogy
mistaken idea
pink elephants
ambition
aspiration
plan
aim
plans
hopes
false interpretation
fault
prospect
fantastic notion
unreasonable expectation
foolish expectation
irrational expectation
unrealistic expectation
concept
ideal
fata morgana
transient phenomenon
short-lived phenomenon
daydreaming
credulity
magic
sorcery
wrong end of the stick
imago
story
fantasizingUS
daydreams
hunch
suspicion
belief
supposition
witchcraft
inattentiveness
inattention
inkling
absent-mindedness
absorption
self-absorption
obliviousness
preoccupation
engrossment
brooding
abstraction
romance
illusions
fairy tale
fairy story
dwam
brown study
intimation
understanding
opinion
kidology
fib
relaxation
avoidance
entertainment
escape
distraction
diversion
apologue
fake news
trumped-up story
alternative fact
fancying
woolgathering
contemplation
stargazing
mind
perception
escapism
pipe dreams
fantasisingUK
tall tale
tall story
absence of mind
staring into space
blonde moment
fictitious story
folk ballad
cognition
utopia
inclination
lack of application
in a zone
lack of concentration
flights of fancy
irrational belief
unfounded belief
preference
partiality
fondness
attraction
sneaking suspicion
apprehension
taste
urge
want
impulse
liking
relish
predilection
like
cock and bull story
yearning
hankering
thirst
longing
pining
love
penchant
craving
bent
ideation
power of invention
mental vision
mental visualization
mental image
need
hunger
ache
shine
appetite
envisagement
predisposition
eccentricity
itch
contrivance
kink
inconsistency
deceit
out-of-body experience
sequence of images
humourUK
thing
yen
imaginativeness
whimsey
humorUS
peculiarity
inventiveness
cloud cuckoo land
romancing
druthers
casuistry
sophistry
flaw
sophism
sweven
erroneousness
falseness
fallaciousness
love affair
eyes for
faultiness
sweet tooth
deceptiveness
quibbling
ambiguity
bias
preconception
subterfuge
illogicality
inexactness
speciousness
erratum
evasion
perversion
prejudice
cavil
equivocation
invalidity
solecism
elusion
paradox
deviation
faulty reasoning
unsound argument
non sequitur
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