feignedEnglishOxford English Thesaurusfeigned adjective he accepted the invitation with feigned enthusiasm: pretended, simulated, assumed, affected, artificial, insincere, put-on, fake, faked, false, sham; apparent, ostensible, seeming, surface, avowed, professed; informal pretend, pseudo, phoney, fakey; British, informal cod. ▷antonyms sincere.feign Oxford Dictionary of English