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Main Entry: put on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend

Synonyms:

act, affect, assume, bluff, confound, confuse, counterfeit, deceive, don, fake, feign, make believe, masquerade, playact, pose, pull, put on a front, put on an act, sham, simulate, strike, take on, trick

Antonyms:

be truthful
Main Entry: put on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stage a performance

Synonyms:

do, mount, present, produce, show
Main Entry: act
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior

Synonyms:

affectation, attitude, bit*, chaser, dissimilation, fake, false front, feigning, front, performance, phony, pose, posture, pretense, put-on, sham, show, shuck and jive, simulation, soft soap, stall, stance, stunt, sweet talk
Notes: an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act
Main Entry: affect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend, imitate

Synonyms:

act, adopt, aspire to, assume, bluff, contrive, counterfeit, do a bit, fake, feign, lay it on thick, make out like, playact, put on, put up a front, sham*, simulate, take on
Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression

Synonyms:

air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation

Antonyms:

naturalness, simplicity
Main Entry: affected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: changed in a bad or artificial way

Synonyms:

apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural

Antonyms:

ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured
Main Entry: affix
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attach or stick

Synonyms:

add, annex, append, bind, fasten, glue, hitch on, join, paste, put on, rivet, slap on, subjoin, tack, tack on, tag, tag on

Antonyms:

detach, let go, loosen
Main Entry: airs
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: affectation; pretended behavior

Synonyms:

affectedness, arrogance, false front, front, haughtiness, hauteur, mannerism, ostentation, pomposity, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, show, superciliousness

Antonyms:

personality, realness, truthfulness
Main Entry: apply
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put substance on another

Synonyms:

administer, affix, anoint, bestow, cover, fasten, join, lay on, massage, paint, place, put on, rub, smear, spread, touch
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended; affected

Synonyms:

assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural

Antonyms:

genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
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