AS IF Definition & Meaning

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as if

Also, as though. As it would be, as in He decided to accept, as if it really mattered, or John scowled as though he were really angry. The first idiom dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the late 1700s. Also see make as if.

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“It was as if the league didn’t even exist.”

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“It feels like we’re animals, racing for a box of supplies as if our lives depend on it. And they do.”

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“These guys are armed and dressed as if they’re going to war, on U.S. citizens, on people just trying to get by and work.”

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As if being visibly muscular, or simply not waifish, was a form of failure.

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"It is as if our constitution only is there like a newspaper to be read, and tomorrow we forget about it," Mr Ojwang's father told the BBC.

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