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[ feyn ] / feɪn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR feign ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse. to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice. verb (used without object)to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill. Origin of feignFirst recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English fei(g)nen, from Old French feign-, present stem of feindre, from Latin fingere “to shape, invent, feign” synonym study for feign4. See pretend. OTHER WORDS FROM feignfeigner, nounfeign·ing·ly, adverbun·feign·ing, adjectiveun·feign·ing·ly, adverbWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH feignfain, faint, feign , feintWords nearby feignfeet on the ground, feeze, FEF, Fehling's solution, FEI, feign, feigned, feijoa, feijoada, Feininger, feinschmecker Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for feignThey cannot feign ignorance at the end of a journey that was ugly all along. Hillary, ‘The Family,’ and Uganda’s Anti-Gay Christian Mafia|Sally Kohn|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Give us a moment to feign excitement...TVLine Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy went trick-or-treating together. New Tina Fey Comedy Coming to NBC, Kanye West Whines About Proposal Video Leak|Culture Team|November 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST And you have to possess a certain amount of humility—or at least try to feign it from time to time. The Larry Summers Whodunit: Who Killed His Shot at Running the Fed?|Daniel Gross|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST But anyone who can feign a relationship for 40 days can surely do it for one meal. Are the 40 Days Duo Really a Couple?|Abby Haglage|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I could likely feign my way through a short story—a very short story—in Farsi. Khaled Hosseini: How I Write|Noah Charney|November 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST Fear nothing, feign complete ignorance, let them lead the way, and march straight up to the bridge. The Usurper|Judith Gautier Mr. Buxton stood back a little, waiting; he must feign to be asleep at first. By What Authority?|Robert Hugh Benson Let it carry your compliments; and whoever you are, add expressions that feign you to be in love, and entreaties not a few. Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love|Ovid Ought not you to feign that it is only about thirteen carats when it is actually eighteen? Imaginary Interviews|W. D. Howells If you have been, as you say, to Monsieur Margueron, it was to tell him to feign illness. A Start in Life|Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for feign
verbto put on a show of (a quality or emotion); pretendto feign innocence (tr) to make up; inventto feign an excuse (tr) to copy; imitateto feign someone's laugh Derived forms of feignfeigner, nounfeigningly, adverbWord Origin for feignC13: from Old French feindre to pretend, from Latin fingere to form, shape, invent Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to feignplay, dissimulate, bluff, assume, invent, fake, stonewall, fabricate, devise, imagine, dissemble, simulate, act, forge, affect, imitate, counterfeit, sham, play possum, put on |