interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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(verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
(verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
(verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
(verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
(verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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interpretation | (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: rendering, rendition |
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(noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpreting, rendering, rendition |
(noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: reading, version |
(noun) an explanation that results from interpreting something | - |
interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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interpreter | (noun) (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time | Synonyms: interpretive program |
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(noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: representative, spokesperson, voice |
(noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who uses art to represent something | - |
interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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(verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
(verb) interpret falsely | - |
misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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(noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteenager |
preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
(noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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(noun) the enactment of a pretense | Synonyms: make-believe |
(verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
(verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
(verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
(verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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(noun) 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 | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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(noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
(noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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(noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
(noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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(adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
(adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
pretentiously | (adverb) in a pretentious manner | - |
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pretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretension |
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(noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
preterist | (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled | - |
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preterit | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterite |
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preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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preterition | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis |
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pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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(verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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(adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
preternaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: supernaturally |
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pretext | (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretense |
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(noun) something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason | Synonyms: stalking-horse |
pretor | (noun) an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic | Synonyms: praetor |
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pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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pretorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: praetorium |
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pretrial | (noun) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases | Synonyms: pretrial conference |
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prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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prettily | (adverb) in a pretty manner | - |
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prettiness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: cuteness |
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pretty | (adjective) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad | - |
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(adjective) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | - |
(adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat |
pretzel | (noun) glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot | - |
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reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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(verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
reinterpretation | (noun) a new or different interpretation | - |
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(noun) a new or different meaning | - |
unpretending | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious |
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unpretentious | (adjective) lacking pretension or affectation | - |
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(adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending |
(adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unostentatious |
unpretentiously | (adverb) in an unpretentious manner | - |
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unpretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being natural and without pretensions | - |
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