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Noun
▲
The act of imagining
shamming
simulation
bluffing
dissimulation
acting
cheating
concealment
counterfeiting
covering
dissembling
masking
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
feigning
posture
affectation
posturing
charade
guise
veneer
pretension
semblance
faking
appearance
assumption
false front
outward appearance
false appearance
false show
make-believe
act
invention
deception
fabrication
deceit
trickery
artifice
falsehood
fakery
playacting
put-on
airs
disguise
self-deception
imagination
duplicity
cant
fraudulence
fraud
attitudinizing
deceitfulness
con
cover
ostentation
veil
insincerity
stall
shuffling
evasion
trick
gag
routine
excuse
pretext
imitation
misrepresentation
misstatement
mask
ruse
display
double-dealing
stunt
cloak
schtick
wile
falsity
lying
mendacity
dishonesty
treachery
hypocrisy
putting on an act
simulacrum
kidology
lack of veracity
false pretense
dumb act
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are
make-believe
fantasy
charade
daydreaming
dream
imagination
play-acting
pretenceUK
unreality
dreaming
fabrication
fancy
invention
romancing
delusion
illusion
masquerade
self-deception
disguise
dissimulation
fakery
game
pageant
playacting
pretenseUS
pretension
pretentiousness
role-playing
sham
story
fairy tale
camouflage
blind
window dressing
gloss
exterior
look
shroud
concealment
image
curtain
disguisement
beard
impression
wraps
false colors
smoke and mirrors
aspect
suppression
layer
mien
window-dressing
mantle
public image
hood
coloringUS
hiding
colouringUK
shield
scheme
form
expression
bearing
blanket
false face
coverture
penumbra
pall
cope
role
figure
whitewash
secretion
disguising
-gate
carriage
hushing up
keeping hidden
covering up
name
keeping secret
seeming
surface
lie
robe
envelope
frontage
shawl
wrap
visage
character
presentation
shell
outside
manifestation
manner
outward display
snivel
shade
mannerism
attractive appearance
shape
mode
leaf
personality
identity
part
countenance
demeanourUK
positure
stand
plot
extenuation
conspiracy
stratagem
device
manoeuvreUK
move
portrayal
closeting
self
expedient
dodge
machination
demeanorUS
smoke-screen
approximation
outward
personage
person
resemblance
maneuverUS
external appearance
outward form
persona
public face
assumed role
similitude
alikeness
mood
similarity
affinity
aura
feel
feeling
burial
veil of secrecy
hush-up
placing under wraps
seal of secrecy
outward show
guile
caching
stashing
cunning
dupery
piousness
deceptiveness
crookery
foxiness
wiliness
craftiness
cozenage
concealing
counterfeiting
cunningness
craft
crookedness
cheating
guilefulness
misprision
shrouding
veiling
codology
hide-out
obscuration
occultation
obliteration
hiding place
mere façade
vizard
visor
domino
stocking mask
more ❯
Noun
▲
Stage acting
performing arts
acting
amateur dramatics
assuming
characterization
depiction
drama
dramatics
dramatisingUK
dramatizingUS
enacting
enactment
feigning
hamming
histrionics
imitating
imitation
impersonation
improvisation
mime
mimicry
pantomime
performance
play acting
playing
portrayal
portraying
posing
posturing
pretenceUK
pretenseUS
putting
rendition
seeming
showing off
simulating
stagecraft
stooging
theatreUK
theaterUS
theatricals
the stage
theatricality
exhibitionism
staginess
theatricalness
representation
acting out
interpretation
accomplishment
execution
showy behavior
personation
staging
melodramatics
footlights
carrying out
theatrical
take
theatricalism
role
imposture
masquerade
pose
role-playing
plays
performance as
dramatic arts
troupe
histrionism
account
version
commotion
fuss
entertainment industry
hysterics
excitement
limelight
piece
rendering
reading
achievement
prosecution
commission
fulfilmentUK
appearance
discharge
personification
pursuance
implementation
perpetration
fulfillmentUS
play-acting
playacting
presentation
more ❯
Noun
▲
Display intended to excite admiration or applause
ostentation
flamboyance
flashiness
gaudiness
ostentatiousness
pretentiousness
showiness
swank
affectation
conspicuousness
display
exhibitionism
flash
flaunting
garishness
glitz
obtrusiveness
pretension
show
brashness
extravagance
kitschness
loudness
ornateness
theatricality
tinsel
boasting
flashness
flourish
glitziness
pageantry
parade
pomp
ritziness
self-advertisement
showing off
tastelessness
vaunting
vulgarity
window-dressing
array
bad taste
boast
brag
braggadocio
bragging
bravado
brazenness
demonstration
exhibition
fuss
magnificence
pageant
parading
pomposity
pompousness
put-on
shine
showoff
spectacle
splashiness
splendourUK
splendorUS
splurge
swagger
swaggering
swankiness
vainglory
vaunt
false front
grandstand play
razzle-dazzle
dignity
eminence
excellence
illustriousness
honourUK
honorUS
brilliancy
exaltation
superiority
fineness
renown
prestige
class
lushness
royalty
courtliness
triumph
awesomeness
celebrity
exquisiteness
integrity
plushness
gravitas
fulsomeness
gravity
standing
luxuriance
goodness
magnanimity
polish
quality
praise
kudos
immortality
reputation
expensiveness
sophistication
preeminence
poise
culture
propriety
worthiness
breeding
noblesse
kingliness
virtue
gentility
classiness
hauteur
purity
vastness
immensity
regalness
royalness
regality
epicness
seriousness
righteousness
morality
supremacy
status
affluence
costliness
gallantry
graciousness
prosperity
wealth
fashion
voluptuousness
charm
handsomeness
stature
consequence
cachet
pre-eminence
suaveness
smoothness
gracefulness
merit
cultivation
peerlessness
self-possession
tastefulness
perfection
discernment
politeness
couth
urbanity
elegancy
rhythm
delicacy
felicity
symmetry
restraint
nicety
good taste
attractiveness
portentousness
effectiveness
powerfulness
gilt
power
finery
sight
rank
grandioseness
superlativeness
wonderfulness
solemnness
momentousness
earnestness
effulgence
incorruptibility
blood
generosity
society
uprightness
birth
ennoblement
gentry
patricians
peerage
elite
glorification
preciousness
plushiness
fanciness
riches
queenliness
awe
pride
great beauty
magnitude
upper class
ruling class
blue blood
high society
worldliness
courtesy
massiveness
hugeness
decency
civility
enormousness
immenseness
prominence
prodigiousness
size
mannerliness
sublime
bigness
honorableness
bulk
lure
captivation
draw
attraction
fascination
allure
tremendousness
civilizationUS
amazingness
remarkableness
fabulousness
awesome
circumstance
breadth
expansiveness
sway
inclusiveness
might
superbity
amplitude
fame
exceptional nature
gentlemanliness
affability
manners
pull
luxe
diplomacy
cool
suavity
tact
taste
courteousness
genteelness
soft skills
civilisationUK
great importance
drawing power
decorum
paramountcy
ascendancy
matchlessness
incomparability
finesse
respectability
regard
respectfulness
composure
primacy
prestigiousness
predominance
prepotency
noteworthiness
preponderancy
preponderance
dominance
smartness
cultivated beauty
modishness
comfort
correctness
lordliness
seemliness
modesty
honourability
etiquette
flawlessness
hedonism
sedateness
reserve
sobriety
character
station
prosperousness
faultlessness
perfectness
ethics
significance
worth
immaculateness
choiceness
impeccability
achievement
primeness
plenty
security
accomplishment
infallibility
excellency
exemplariness
soundness
lap of luxury
arete
supereminence
value
bed of roses
life of Riley
milk and honey
first-rateness
high standard
high quality
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Ostensibly employed, but wasting time
loafing
evading
shirking
slacking
apathetic
careless
indifferent
uninterested
Adjective
▲
Supposed but not necessarily real or true
hypothetical
theoretical
academic
speculative
assumed
supposed
suppositional
putative
conjectural
imagined
academical
conjectured
notional
presumed
theoretic
imaginary
unreal
assumptive
casual
concocted
conditional
conjecturable
contestable
contingent
debatable
disputable
doubtful
equivocal
guessed
indefinite
indeterminate
postulated
presumptive
presupposed
problematic
proposed
provisory
questionable
refutable
stochastic
suppositious
suspect
uncertain
unconfirmed
vague
made up
outward
superficial
semblant
perceived
surface
illusive
feigned
implicated
incriminated
involved
under suspicion
based
presumable
appearing
exterior
quasi-
obvious
clear-cut
unambiguous
clear
exhibited
manifest
notable
colorable
demonstrative
quasi
admitted
premised
to all appearances
just so
whispered
prevailing
told
broadcast
circulating
bruited
external
rife
going around
given out
all over town
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Likely, capable of, or designed to, deceive
deceiving
deceptive
misleading
fallacious
false
specious
delusive
delusory
deceitful
beguiling
deluding
fraudulent
illusory
insincere
glib
dishonest
unreliable
cheating
cunning
devious
faithless
lying
untrustworthy
spurious
untrue
erroneous
mistaken
bogus
unfounded
sham
mythical
fantastical
phantasmal
phantasmic
phantom
fabulous
made-up
pretend
mythic
dreamlike
make-believe
imaginal
fantasied
unsubstantial
phantasmagoric
ethereal
immaterial
romantic
dreamy
nonexistent
legendary
hypothetical
vague
intangible
shadowy
phantasmagorical
imaginative
abstract
bizarre
storybook
impalpable
blue-sky
wild
figmental
vaporous
theoretical
airy
assumed
fantasy
unbelievable
absurd
weird
incredible
nightmarish
far-fetched
aerial
ridiculous
out of this world
surreal
indistinct
flimsy
incorporeal
unclear
otherworldly
mythological
psychedelic
fairy-tale
tenuous
misty
spectral
extravagant
obscure
dreamed-up
Kafkaesque
imponderable
capricious
devised
curious
ghostly
conceptual
oneiric
ghostlike
hazy
bodiless
faint
traditional
supposed
spiritual
dim
utopian
pretended
unbodied
fabled
speculative
volatile
nebulous
formless
nonphysical
discarnate
nonmaterial
indescribable
extraordinary
preposterous
inexistent
imagal
wonderful
wistful
created
absent
metaphysical
virtual
eccentric
unlikely
unrealistic
improvised
poetic
incomprehensible
synthetic
strange
offbeat
crackpot
thought up
hyped up
all in one's head
marvellousUK
marvelousUS
phantasmagorial
kaleidoscopic
phantasmagorian
hoax
allegorical
epic
filled with dreams
phantasm
idealizedUS
unread
mocking
folkloric
mythologic
storied
disembodied
chimeral
non-physical
non-material
unembodied
subjective
idealisedUK
wraithlike
in your head
dream-filled
unwarranted
transcendental
supernatural
unearthly
ideational
suppositional
conjectural
putative
larger-than-life
unjustified
unprovable
unprovoked
disincarnate
conjectured
theoretic
trancelike
trance-like
made
fashioned
faux
reproduction
reachy
replica
unnatural
apparitional
conceived
uncorporeal
unauthorizedUS
wanting
lacking
missing
unjustifiable
uncalled-for
dreamt up
indefinable
fool's paradise
superstitious
freety
apprehensive
fearful
nonvalid
questionable
tall
untouchable
dead
gone
blank
departed
extinguished
vacant
void
null
gossamery
defunct
negative
lost
perished
extinct
dreamish
hypnagogic
weightless
wispy
gratuitous
bottomless
uncalled for
not backed up
causeless
flakeyUS
far out
fairy tale
kinky
flakyUK
floating
outlandish
left-field
wondrous
without justification
without reason
without cause
unauthorisedUK
baffling
ephemeral
without explanation
dainty
rare
frail
rarefied
diaphanous
thin
light
frivolous
fragile
cock and bull
hard to swallow
hard to take
imperceptible to the touch
slender
infirm
petty
decrepit
puny
fly-by-night
enigmatic
astounding
pie in the sky
castles in the air
on cloud nine
expressive
passed on
passed away
elusory
creative
sensational
astonishing
awesome
spectacular
stupendous
out there
breathtaking
romanesque
glamourous
glamorous
odd
nonsensical
implausible
null and void
few and far between
fresh
exotic
original
insane
too little too late
improbable
ludicrous
crazy
inspired
artistic
inventive
fancy
quirky
originative
flighty
weird and wonderful
deviating
surprising
daydreaming
unspecific
oracular
unthinkable
dubious
inconceivable
peculiar
doubtful
musing
preoccupied
artful
brilliant
unconventional
freaky
radical
fertile
freakish
ingenious
genius
experimental
innovative
keen
indistinguishable
indefinite
abstracted
pensive
fugacious
transient
shy
elusive
fleeting
greasy
transitory
stonewalling
occult
mysterious
evanescent
innovational
unorthodox
vivid
revolutionary
astute
blurry
undefined
unconvincing
unimaginable
foolish
comical
incredulous
grandiose
oddball
dreaming
distracted
blurred
fuzzy
far-out
head in the clouds
avant-garde
out of touch with reality
Promethean
unconceivable
erratic
wacky
ambitious
amazing
uncompelling
zany
ruminative
meditative
inattentive
thoughtful
reflective
distrait
murky
unrecognizableUS
indeterminate
bleary
gauzy
foggy
opaque
cockamamie
barmy
different
potty
daft
singular
extreme
rapt
absent-minded
wool-gathering
absorbed
nebulose
undetermined
pale
blear
outré
faraway
unrecognisableUK
cloudy
out of sight
off-the-wall
cock-and-bull
off the wall
hare-brained
cock-eyed
excellent
introspective
far away
in a reverie
with your head in the clouds
miles away
lost in thought
beautiful
astral
superb
in a brown study
introvertive
lacking definition
out of focus
ill-defined
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretence of
feigning
affecting
faking
shamming
counterfeiting
simulating
assuming
dissembling
professing
alleging
dissimulating
putting on
acting
bluffing
claiming
falsifying
aspiring
impersonating
purporting
beguiling
cheating
cozening
deceiving
deluding
duping
fishing
fooling
fudging
hoodwinking
jazzing
jiving
letting on
making out
malingering
masquerading
misleading
passing for
stonewalling
suckering
whitewashing
claiming falsely
faking out
laying claim
passing off
passing yourself off as
shucking and jiving
putting up a front
hiding
concealing
masking
posturing
lying
camouflaging
cloaking
veiling
dressing up
dressing in
changing into
adopting
getting into
wearing
donning
pulling
acting as if
suppressing
bearding
obscuring
misrepresenting
fronting
confounding
taking on
striking
playacting
tricking
confusing
making a pretense
making a show
presenting a false face
presenting a false front
going through the motions
shrouding
covering up
making a pretense of
pussyfooting
four-flushing
covering
passing
signifying
making a pretence of
making out that
letting on that
playing possum
making like
putting up a smoke screen
more ❯
“I cannot pretend to understand the problem.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for engage in an imaginative game or fantasy
acting
imagining
impersonating
play-acting
supposing
bluffing
playing
fantasisingUK
fantasizingUS
imitating
masquerading
mimicking
playacting
playing at
portraying
purporting
representing
reproducing
putting on an act
assuming the role
making out like
making up
passing oneself off as
playing the part of
putting on airs
putting on a front
pantomiming
miming
faking
feigning
posing
shamming
simulating
counterfeiting
dissembling
fronting
making as if
putting on
“It was a huge adventure and we'd play silly games and pretend we were pirates on a quest for gold.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not
affecting
dissembling
dissimulating
posing
posturing
professing
kidding
shamming
faking it
making as if
putting it on
going through the motions
putting on a false front
faking
feigning
simulating
assuming
counterfeiting
acting
bluffing
putting on
passing for
imitating
putting on an act
fabricating
play-acting
lying
making like
forging
masquerading
showing off
playing the part of
striking an attitude
copping an attitude
taking off as
parodying
caricaturing
circulating bad money
going like
making money
burlesquing
travestying
spoofing
manufacturing
purporting to be
playing a role
disguising as
taking the part of
faking being
acting a part
passing yourself off
assuming character
professing to be
making like a
assuming the character of
representing oneself as
passing as
disguising oneself as
masking as
sending up
excogitating
constructing
hatching
monkeying
drumming up
vamping
telling a white lie
telling untruth
vamping up
dreaming up
cooking up
misstating
thinking up
creating out of thin air
doing an impression
doing likewise
following in footsteps
modeling after
patterning after
reflecting
repeating
playing a part
paralleling
trying to be like
parallelling
mirroring
deceiving
parroting
favouringUK
creating
exaggerating
favoringUS
cribbing
resembling
stealing
suggesting
lifting
featuring
fencing
mocking up
glossing over
doing a take-off
messing
four-flushing
making show of
putting on act
giving appearance of
putting on a false display
more ❯
“They could pretend that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.”
Verb
▲
Going through the motions of having
laying claim to
professing to have
purporting to have
making a claim to
going through the motions of having
Verb
▲
Present participle for appear to be or do something, especially falsely
purporting
claiming
professing
alleging
declaring
maintaining
seeming
appearing
asserting
meaning
signifying
affirming
averring
avouching
avowing
contending
expressing
impersonating
importing
indicating
insisting
intending
proclaiming
protesting
suggesting
warranting
betokening
conveying
denoting
implying
laying claim
personating
posing as
setting oneself up
alleging that one is
masquerading as
passing for
setting oneself up as
asserting that one is
implying that one is
maintaining that one is
passing oneself off as
pointing to
proclaiming that one is
representing oneself as
feigning the identity of
reasoning
establishing
pressing
syllogizing
connoting
predicating
drawing conclusions
expostulating
positing
propounding
opining
explaining
questioning
advocating
remonstrating
appealing
prevailing upon
making a case
making a case for
giving reasons for
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for make a show of
daydreaming
dreaming
fantasisingUK
fantasizingUS
imagining
playing
play-acting
bluffing
counterfeiting
enacting
faking
fancying
feigning
fooling
musing
playacting
romancing
simulating
indulging in fantasy
acting as if
acting as though
building castles in Spain
letting on like
making as if
playing the part
building castles in the air
envisioning
inventing
hallucinating
conceiving
stargazing
staring into space
contemplating
having your head in the clouds
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for tell a fib
fibbing
lying
fabricating
prevaricating
dissembling
dissimulating
inventing
conning
exaggerating
falsifying
misrepresenting
perjuring
equivocating
kidding
concocting
deceiving
faking
feigning
inventing a story
jiving
paltering
planting
promoting
shovelingUS
shovellingUK
stretching the truth
telling a fib
forswearing yourself
making up a story
telling a lie
telling untruths
creating fiction
departing from the truth
making up
telling stories
trumping up
telling a terminological inexactitude
not telling the truth
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
pulling the wool over somebody's eyes
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
forswearing oneself
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
perjuring yourself
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
framing someone
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
bamboozling
spinning a yarn
taking in
leading on
telling lies
fooling
giving the wrong impression
misdirecting
disinforming
snookering
suckering
cozening
hornswoggling
gaffing
having
humbugging
buffaloing
spoofing
propagandizingUS
gammoning
burning
juggling
mousetrapping
gulling
propagandisingUK
catching
lying to
sucking in
doing a number on
faking out
giving someone a bum steer
taking for a ride
covering up
pulling one's leg
putting up smoke screen
pulling the wool over one's eyes
putting on an act
giving wrong information to
leading one down the garden path
leading up the garden path
putting on false front
wrong steering
lying under oath
swearing falsely
scamming
swindling
bilking
hosing
shafting
illuding
inveigling
cheating
seducing
betraying
rooking
defrauding
bunking
outfoxing
enticing
tempting
outwitting
overreaching
baiting
victimisingUK
ensnaring
enmeshing
entangling
luring
imposing on
victimizingUS
taking someone for a ride
taking someone in
pulling wool over eyes
playing trick on
ripping off
putting one over on
pulling a swifty on
leading up garden path
double-crossing
pulling a fast one on
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
roping in
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fooling
jesting
joking
kidding
acting
faking
feigning
shamming
bantering
chaffing
funning
gagging
japing
jiving
jollying
joshing
messing
quipping
teasing
wisecracking
yucking
yukking
counterfeiting
clowning about
clowning around
messing about
playing tricks
messing around
playing the fool
putting on an act
having someone on
mucking around
mucking someone about
winding someone up
mocking
making fun of
ragging
ridiculing
deriding
taunting
laughing at
poking fun at
twitting
needling
taking the mickey out of
jeering at
scoffing at
satirizingUS
jibing at
quizzing
ragging on
poking mullock at
making sport of
sending up
jeering
satirisingUK
goofing on
taking the piss out of
slinging off at
making jokes about
gibing
lampooning
chiacking
pulling somebody's leg
scorning
baiting
parodying
pillorying
making a monkey of
flouting
scoffing
jibing
guying
sneering at
making a monkey out of
flouting at
goading
treating with contempt
putting on
caricaturing
sneering
mimicking
smoking
hazing
burlesquing
spoofing
rotting
humiliating
scouting
holding up to ridicule
panning
pulling someone's leg
putting down
pulling one's leg
punning
picking on
showing up
heckling
heaping scorn on
skewering
provoking
travestying
pooh-poohing
poking borak at
cartooning
shooting down
laughing
making a fool of
tricking
treating contemptuously
hoaxing
playing a joke on
taking the mickey
joking with
sallying
insulting
holding up to shame
retorting
tormenting
playing a prank
sledging
playing a practical joke
dissing
annoying
slamming
telling jokes
deflating
unmasking
exposing
fleering
setting up
harassing
running down
railing at
pouring scorn on
making a laughing-stock
pulling someone's chain
making a game of
raspberrying
criticizingUS
remarking
larking
censuring
taking off
knocking
staying
boning
ridging
disparaging
disdaining
squibbing
pasquinading
playing a practical joke on
buffooning
hooting
contemning
tearing to pieces
calling names
flittering
frazzling
denigrating
detracting
slighting
dismissing
amusing
pranking
flipping
entertaining
diverting
criticisingUK
having a joke with
showing contempt for
showing contempt
cracking wise
thumbing nose at
vilifying
taking a rise out of
getting a rise out of
playing a trick on
louting
detracting from
gambollingUK
frolicking
gambolingUS
making mischief
larking about
larking around
pulling your leg
taking for a ride
doing a number on
dumping on
leading up the garden path
messing someone around
shucking someone
making a monkey out of someone
putting someone on
messing someone about
playing a trick
rotting someone
playing a joke
worrying
having somebody on
telling somebody stories
plaguing
bothering
clowning
pestering
vexing
aggravating
badgering
bedevilingUS
bedevillingUK
hassling
revelingUS
revellingUK
tantalizingUS
titillating
arousing
dogging
exciting
gnawing
tantalisingUK
snapping
deviling
disturbing
importuning
harrying
encouraging
irritating
hectoring
nudging
sounding
devilling
beleaguering
manipulating
flirting with
exposing to ridicule
leading on
leading somebody on
swipeing at
giving a hard time
cracking jokes
kidding around
poking fun
horsing around
laughing out of court
making someone a laughing stock
playing the clown
making merry
girding
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
bluffing
deceiving
fooling
tricking
conning
deluding
misleading
humbugging
duping
hoodwinking
bamboozling
beguiling
cheating
gulling
hoaxing
cozening
faking
lying
taking in
buffaloing
burning
catching
feigning
gaffing
gammoning
having
hornswoggling
juggling
kidding
misguiding
misinforming
shamming
snookering
snowing
spoofing
suckering
double-crossing
having on
betraying
blagging
buncoing
defrauding
faking out
illuding
jiving
scamming
shucking
stringing along
sucking in
passing off
psyching out
putting one over on
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
Verb
▲
Present participle for to quibble over trivial matters
pettifogging
altercating
argufying
avoiding
bickering
carping
cavillingUK
cavilingUS
chicaning
criticisingUK
criticizingUS
disputing
equivocating
evading
fencing
flip-flopping
hassling
niggling
nitpicking
prevaricating
shifting
sparring
squabbling
waffling
wrangling
arguing over
blowing hot and cold
catching at straws
having at it
hemming and hawing
hypercriticizing
making a big thing about
nit-picking
paralogizing
picking to pieces
putting up an argument
setting to
splitting hairs
talking back
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for assume the existence of
positing
advancing
postulating
assuming
predicating
presuming
propounding
submitting
asserting
hypothesisingUK
hypothesizingUS
putting forward
presupposing
proposing
stating
conceiving
concluding
conjecturing
considering
deeming
dreaming
expecting
fancying
feeling
gathering
imagining
judging
posing
premising
reckoning
regarding
speculating
suggesting
supposing
suspecting
taking
theorisingUK
theorizingUS
thinking
understanding
viewing
setting forth
swearing by
having a hunch
having sneaking suspicion
taking as a hypothesis
taking stock in
taking as gospel truth
suspicioning
deducing
divining
gleaning
taking for granted
hazarding a guess
guesstimating
saying
figuring
trusting
taking it
opining
daring say
sensing
taking as read
taking a stab
having a sneaking suspicion
taking a shot
holding
allowing
esteeming
hypothecating
implying
formulating a theory
forming a theory
depending
relying
risking assuming
construing
coming to the conclusion
venturing a guess
working out
counting on
banking on
jumping the gun
calculating
reasoning
accepting
brainstorming
dare-saying
granting
going out on a limb
sparking
cooking up
admitting
estimating
gaugingUK
gagingUS
determining
calling
making
rating
evaluating
adjudging
counting
appraising
weening
seeing
assessing
deciding
placing
drawing the inference
extrapolating
putting
forecasting
predicting
ascertaining
anticipating
maintaining
having a feeling
deriving
perceiving
sizing up
foreseeing
valuing
apprehending
taking it as given
finding
thinking likely
intuiting
foretelling
approximating
appreciating
thinking it likely
accounting
crediting
visualizingUS
projecting
making out
envisioning
figuring out
computing
philosophisingUK
visualisingUK
weighing up
philosophizingUS
venturing
looking upon
regarding as
drawing
seeing as
establishing
hazarding
summing up
realizingUS
envisaging
interpreting
discerning
doping out
realisingUK
fathoming
contemplating
classing as
analysingUK
analyzingUS
looking on
viewing as
looking on as
setting down
adding up
picturing
announcing
comprehending
ruling
holding to be
recognizingUS
taking for
discovering
interpreting as
collecting
reading
taking it as read
ratiocinating
numbering
foreknowing
recognisingUK
noticing
getting the idea
thinking of
counting up
having the feeling
forming an opinion of
putting a figure on
contending
declaring
acknowledging
adjudicating
pronouncing
thinking it likely that
postulating that
having an idea that
theorizing that
observing
visioning
imaging
ranking
conceding
featuring
having a suspicion
fearing
measuring
hearing
learning
predetermining
getting
grasping
prophesying
totalling
totaling
tallying
classing
having a sneaking feeling
enumerating
prognosticating
reckoning on
decreeing
knowing
auguring
having a foreboding
taking it for granted
having an idea
previsioning
ciphering
quantifying
setting
taking to be
noting
presaging
weighing
selecting
averring
forefeeling
vaticinating
cognizing
savvying
fixing
detecting
portending
sussing
tumbling to
casting
resolving
soothsaying
picking
assigning
distinguishing
twigging
telling
foreboding
setting store by
planning on
believing to be
bargaining for
counting upon
forewarning
cyphering
summing
totting
prevising
valuating
solving
totting up
thinking of as
spaeing
auspicating
foreshadowing
assaying
dreaming up
catching on to
adumbrating
hearing tell
cottoning on to
boiling down
putting down as
making a guess at
allowing for
making an estimate of
toting up
regarding as likely
betting
seeing coming
taking a stab at
reading into
sussing out
taking a shot at
psyching out
coming to understand
taking account of
keeping tabs
jumping to a conclusion
taking something read
regretting
compassing
hoping
taking something as given
proponing
broaching
purposing
charting
drafting
putting one's faith in
taking as gospel
having a funny feeling
remarking
commenting
taking as fact
formulating
founding
airing
volunteering
mooting
contriving
building on
coming to the conclusion that
syllogizing
making rough guess
building
arguing
grounding
holding that
calculating roughly
cogitating
deducting
drawing conclusions
choosing
soliciting
affirming
claiming
nominating
surveying
chancing
reputing
diagramming
delineating
draughting
diagraming
preconceiving
editorializingUS
reflecting
having as one's opinion
telegraphing
forming an impression of
getting the measure of
treating
happening upon
decoding
grokking
assimilating
registering
deciphering
digging
squaring
toting
footing
conceiting
beginning
introducing
starting
commencing
omening
accusing
thinking it probable
disbelieving
wondering
admiring
drawing a conclusion
taking to mean
tipping
foreshowing
revering
swearing
reading between lines
arriving at
inducing
putting two and two together
drawing inference
reaching conclusion
reading between the lines
rationalizingUS
rationalisingUK
contextualisingUK
estimating as
editorialisingUK
weighing in
forming the opinion
rating as
ranking as
respecting
refereeing
proclaiming
umpiring
arbitrating
settling
depositing
hocking
pledging
mortgaging
hooking
halsening
boding
forespelling
forespeaking
signifying
falling for
ticking off
running down
counting noses
counting heads
ideating
fantasizingUS
looking at
seeing handwriting on wall
telling in advance
warning of
planning for
having doubts
harboring suspicion
having doubt
stumbling on
contextualizingUS
feeling for
factoring in
making of
factoring into
providing for
buying
apportioning
awarding
sentencing
charging
smelling a rat
thinking probable
entertaining the idea
taking the view
subscribing to the opinion
betting bottom dollar
swearing up and down
crossing one's heart
laying money on
lapping up
calculating to be
taking something on board
seeing through
differentiating
seeing the light
fantasying
fantasisingUK
creating
conjuring
pointing the finger at
espying
entertaining
expressing an opinion
ruling on
giving in earnest
feeling to be
imagining to be
conceiving to be
planning
foretasting
conjuring up
pre-empting
waiting for
looking for
figuring on
seeing in the cards
calling it
bargaining on
preparing for
watching for
hoping for
seeing it coming
having a hunch of
counting chickens
contemplating the possibility of
thinking it conceivable
trumping up
thinking up
costing
calibrating
totalizing
grading
latching on to
adding
adding together
subtracting
adjusting
multiplying
dividing
grouping
getting the picture
professing
classifying
ordering
categorizingUS
picking out
having a sneaking suspicion of
ceding
sorting
arranging
agreeing
confessing
yielding
listing
scoring
branding
putting down for
pegging
compartmentalisingUK
pigeonholing
categorisingUK
ranging
compartmenting
buttoning down
typing
positioning
breaking down
lining up
assorting
putting in order
codifying
typecasting
separating
indexing
compartmentalizingUS
distributing
marking
concurring
owning
avowing
fessing up
owning up
owning up to
going along with
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for act
play-acting
posturing
putting it on
bringing down the house
burlesquing
characterisingUK
characterizingUS
doing
doing a turn
dramatisingUK
dramatizingUS
emoting
enacting
feigning
going on
going over
hamming
hamming it up
impersonating
laying an egg
making debut
miming
mimicking
mugging
parodying
performing
personating
personifying
playing
playing act
playing gig
playing part
playing role
playing to the gallery
portraying
putting it over
rehearsing
representing
saying one's piece
simulating
starring
stooging
strutting
taking part
treading the boards
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