Especially do not feign affection.
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Feign
//feɪn//
Synonyms for "feign" (81 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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2 entriesderived
5 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
122 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- Form VI of the feigned verb verb (to make a false show)
- اِخْتَلَقَ verb (to make a false show)
- تَخَيَّل verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- تَصَنَّعَ verb (to make a false show)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заблуждавам verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- измислям verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- преструвам се verb (to make a false show)
- симулирам verb (to make a false show)
Catalan
1 entries- fingir verb (to make a false show)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 假裝 /假装 verb (to make a false show)
Czech
2 entries- předstírat verb (to make a false show)
- simulovat verb (to make a false show)
Danish
3 entries- eftergøre verb (to make a false show)
- foregive verb (to make a false show)
- simulere verb (to make a false show)
Dutch
4 entries- fingeren verb (to make a false show)
- inbeelden verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- veinzen verb (to make a false show)
- veinzen verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝajnigi verb (to make a false show)
Finnish
4 entries- kuvitella verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- peitellä verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- salata verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- teeskennellä verb (to make a false show)
French
1 entries- feindre verb (to make a false show)
Friulian
2 entries- fengi verb (to make a false show)
- fenzi verb (to make a false show)
Galician
2 entries- finxir verb (to make a false show)
- inventar verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
German
4 entries- ausdenken verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- fingieren verb (to make a false show)
- verbergen verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- verheimlichen verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
Greek
1 entries- προσποιούμαι verb (to make a false show)
Hindi
2 entries- स्वाँग verb (to make a false show)
- स्वाँग verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Hungarian
4 entries- eltitkol verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- hamisít verb (to make a false show)
- kieszel verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- kigondol verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Italian
4 entries- bluffare verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- dissimulare verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- fingere verb (to make a false show)
- immaginarsi verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Japanese
2 entries- 装う verb (to make a false show)
- 見せ掛ける verb (to make a false show)
Lombard
1 entries- fing verb (to make a false show)
Lushootseed
1 entries- səxʷʔiw̓adəb verb (to make a false show)
Māori
4 entries- whakakikoika verb (to make a false show)
- whakakikoika verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- whakakikoika verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- whakakikokiko verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Norwegian
2 entries- simulere verb (to make a false show)
- spille verb (to make a false show)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fingere verb (to make a false show)
Occitan
1 entries- fénher verb (to make a false show)
Polish
4 entries- grać verb (to make a false show)
- kreować się verb (to make a false show)
- odgrywać rolę verb (to make a false show)
- pozorować verb (to make a false show)
Portuguese
4 entries- aparentar verb (to make a false show)
- dissimular verb (to make a false show)
- fingir verb (to make a false show)
- imaginar verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Russian
4 entries- выду́мывать verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- подделывать verb (to make a false show)
- прики́дываться verb (to make a false show)
- притворя́ться verb (to make a false show)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- leig air verb (to make a false show)
- leig air verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Spanish
3 entries- aparentar verb (to make a false show)
- hacer el papel verb (to make a false show)
- hacer papel verb (to make a false show)
Swedish
4 entries- dölja verb (to hide, conceal, or dissemble)
- fingera verb (to make a false show)
- förege verb (to make a false show)
- låtsas verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
Turkish
3 entries- hile yapmak verb (to make a false show)
- inandırmak verb (to make a false show)
- taklidini yapmak verb (to make a false show)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́гадати verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- вига́дувати verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- наду́мати verb (to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something)
- прикида́тися verb (to make a false show)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
It's futile to feign illness.
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How could I feign surprise?
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I tried to feign indifference.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.