as if/though
B2 used to describe how a situation seems to be:
She looked as if she'd had some bad news.
I felt as though I'd been lying in the sun for hours.
They stared at me as if I was crazy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Seeming and purporting to be
- apparent
- by the look(s) of things idiom
- come
- come across
- come over
- face
- impression
- outward
- paper
- persona
- prima facie
- purport
- putative
- reportedly
- so-called
- sound
- supposed
- supposedly
- verisimilitude
- you can't judge a book by its cover idiom
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