'Feigned' definitions:

Definition of 'feigned'

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adjective
Not genuine; "feigned sympathy"

Definition of 'Feigned'

From: GCIDE
  • Feigned \Feigned\, a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. --Ps. xvii. 1. -- {Feign"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Feign"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
  • Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Feigned'

From: GCIDE
  • Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.]
  • 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. [1913 Webster]
  • There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh. vi. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'feigned'

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