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Feigned vs Feint - What's the difference?

feigned | feint |

As adjectives the difference between feigned and feint

is that feigned is being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent while feint is (obsolete) feigned; counterfeit.

As verbs the difference between feigned and feint

is that feigned is (feign) while feint is to make a feint, or mock attack.

As a noun feint is

a movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.

feigned

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
  • 1841' ''"I have passed my word," said Jowl with '''feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?"'' — Charles Dickens, ''The Old Curiosity Shop , Chapter 9.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feign)
  • Anagrams

    * feeding

    feint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a feint, or mock attack.
  • (to make a counterfeit move to confuse an opponent) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (t) (trans-mid) * Maori: (t), (t), (t), * Russian: * Swedish: (trans-bottom)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
  • * John Locke
  • Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
  • That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
  • * Spectator
  • Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
  • (fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
  • The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)