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pretenseful

pretenseful adjective: full of pretense or pretenses.

Adjective

pretenseful (comparative more pretenseful, superlative most pretenseful)

  1. Full of pretense or pretenses.

Forms of pretenseful

comparativemore pretenseful
superlativemost pretenseful

Origin of pretenseful

From pretense + -ful.

Questions about pretenseful

What does pretenseful mean?
Pretenseful means full of pretense or pretenses.
What part of speech is pretenseful?
Pretenseful is an adjective.

Words near pretenseful in the dictionary

  1. pretendress
  2. pretendresses
  3. pretends
  4. pretense
  5. pretensed
  6. pretenseful
  7. pretenseless
  8. pretenses
  9. pretension
  10. pretensional
  11. pretensioned

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