Make-believe Definition & Meaning

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Make-believe

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"-believe`\, 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"-believe`\, a. Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.''

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"

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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