Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pretend \Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pretended}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Pretending}.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
   pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
   pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
   See {Tend}, v. t. ]
   1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

            Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
      something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
      [R.]

            Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish
            falsehood, snare them.                --Milton.

   3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
      offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
      show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
      simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.

            This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he
            pretend Surprisal.                    --Milton.

   4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]

            Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against
            his state.                            --Shak.

   5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] ``His target always
      over her pretended.'' --Spenser.

Pretended \Pre*tend"ed\, a.
   Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended
   friend. -- {Pre*tend"ed*ly}, adv.

Source : WordNet®

pretended
     adj : adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
           cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
           sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish
           voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: {assumed}, {false}, {fictitious},
            {fictive}, {put on}, {sham}]