as though

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əzˈðəʊ/

Conjunction

as though

1. As to suggest the idea that; as if, as would be true if.

   I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters.

   She reached out, as though to touch my face.

   It always seemed as though we'd get married.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

   • 15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     By that stage Townsend, playing again as though immune to any form of nerves, had curled a lovely, left-footed effort against the crossbar and Welbeck had slashed a shot wide from a position when he really should have done better.

Synonyms

• like

Translations

as to suggest that

• Arabic: كَمَا لَو (kamā law), كَأَنَّ (ar) (kaʔanna)
• Bulgarian: сякаш (bg) (sjakaš), все едно (vse edno), като че ли (kato če li)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仿佛 (zh) (fǎngfú) or 彷彿／彷佛 (zh) (fǎngfú) (variant characters), 似乎 (zh) (sìhū), 好像 (zh) (hǎoxiàng)

• Dutch: alsof (nl)
• Esperanto: kvazaŭ (eo)
• Finnish: niin kuin (fi)
• French: comme si (fr) (+ imperfect or pluperfect), comme pour (fr)
• Georgian: თითქოს (titkos), თითქოსდა (titkosda)
• German: als ob (de), als wenn
• Greek: λες και (les kai)
• Gujarati: જાણે (jāṇe)
• Hungarian: mintha (hu)
• Ido: quaze (io)
• Indonesian: seakan-akan (id), seolah-olah (id)
• Irish: amhail is, ar nós dá, ar nós mar
• Italian: come se
• Japanese: (まるで...) (ja) (maru-de...) ...のようだ (ja) (...-no yō da)
• Old English: swelċe
• Persian: انگار (fa) (engâr), مثل اینکه (mesl-e inke)
• Portuguese: como se (pt)
• Russian: как бу́дто (ru) (kak búdto), бу́дто (ru) (búdto), сло́вно (ru) (slóvno)
• Spanish: como si (+ subjunctive)
• Tocharian B: ramt
• Turkish: -ca (tr), -ça (tr), -ce (tr), -çe (tr), -casına