About The Word Make-believe

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Make-believe

Make-believe Meaning & Definition
Make-believe Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Make-believe?

[n] the enactment of a pretense
[n] imaginative intellectual play
[adj] imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Make-believe: play(a) | pretence | pretend | pretense | unreal

Related Terms | Find terms related to Make-believe: act | act a part | affect | affected | apocryphal | apparition | artificial | assume | assumed | bastard | bluff | bogus | brainchild | brummagem | bubble | charade | chimera | colorable | colored | counterfeit | counterfeited | cover up | delirium | disguise | dissemble | dissimulate | distorted | dressed up | dummy | eidolon | embellished | embroidered | ersatz | fabulous | factitious | fake | faked | falsified | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | feign | feigned | fiction | fictional | fictitious | fictive | figment | figmental | four-flush | gammon | garbled | hallucination | idle fancy | illegitimate | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | imitation | insubstantial image | invention | junky | legendary | let on | let on like | maggot | make a pretense | make as if | make like | man-made | mock | myth | mythic | mythicized | mythified | mythological | nonactual | nonfactual | nonrealistic | pageant | perverted | phantasm | phantom | phony | pinchbeck | play | play a part | play possum | playact | pretend | pretended | pretension | pretentiousness | profess | pseudo | put on | put-on | quasi | queer | romance | self-styled | sham | shoddy | sick fancy | simulate | simulated | so-called | soi-disant | spurious | supposititious | synthetic | thick-coming fancies | tin | tinsel | titivated | trip | twisted | unauthentic | ungenuine | unnatural | unreal | vapor | vision | warped | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams

See Also | feigning | imagery | imagination | imaging | mental imagery | pretence | pretending | pretense | simulation

Make-believe In Webster's Dictionary

\Make"-be*lieve`\, n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. ``Childlike make-believe.'' --Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold.
\Make"-be*lieve`\, a. Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.''

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