'Feint' definitions:
Definition of 'feint'
From: WordNet
noun
Any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
verb
Deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"
Definition of 'Feint'
From: GCIDE
- Feint \Feint\, v. i. To make a feint, or mock attack. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Feint'
From: GCIDE
- Feint \Feint\, a. [F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign. See Feign.] Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Dressed up into any feint appearance of it. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Feint'
From: GCIDE
- Feint \Feint\, n. [F. feinte, fr. feint. See Feint, a.]
- 1. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. [1913 Webster]
- Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'feint'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- aerial tactics,
- affectation,
- airborne tactics,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- applied tactics,
- armored tactics,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- bag of tricks,
- barrier tactics,
- befooling,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bosey,
- catch,
- cavalry tactics,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- commend,
- compliment,
- congratulate,
- conspiracy,
- contemn,
- contrivance,
- counterfeit,
- coup,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cut,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defensive strategy,
- delusion,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distraction,
- diversion,
- dodge,
- encirclement,
- excuse,
- expedient,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false move,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fast deal,
- feigning,
- felicitate,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fire tactics,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gambit,
- game,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gloss,
- googly,
- grift,
- guise,
- handle,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- home thrust,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- intrigue,
- investment,
- jab,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lame excuse,
- little game,
- locus standi,
- lunge,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- move,
- ostensible motive,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pass,
- pincers movement,
- play,
- playacting,
- plot,
- ploy,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- racket,
- recommend,
- red herring,
- refuge,
- representation,
- resort,
- ruse,
- salute,
- scheme,
- screen,
- scurvy trick,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shift,
- shock tactics,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stab,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- swing,
- tactic,
- tactics,
- thrust,
- trick,
- trickery,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whizzer,
- wile,
- wily device,
- window dressing