English noun: Pretender |
1. | Pretender (person) a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | claimant |
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2. | pretender (person) a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
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| Synonyms | fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | name dropper, ringer |
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3. | pretender (person) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives |
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| Synonyms | dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
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| Broader (hypernym) | beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre |
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