make believe

make believe
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Make Believe — may refer to: Contents 1 Music 1.1 Albums 1.2 Songs 2 …   Wikipedia

  • make-believe — 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. [1913 Webster] To forswear self delusion and make believe. M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Make-believe — Make be*lieve , a. 1. Feigned; insincere. Make believe reverence. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make believe friend to whom he often talked. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • make-believe — (n.) pretence, 1811, from MAKE (Cf. make) (v.) + BELIEVE (Cf. believe). As an adjective by 1824 …   Etymology dictionary

  • make believe — make be*lieve , v. i. To pretend; often used with that, but often having the that omitted; as, he made believe he didn t hear her; or he made believe that he didn t hear her. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • make-believe — make be.lieve n [U] when you imagine or pretend that something is real or true ▪ He seems to be living in a world of make believe . ▪ children in the middle of a make believe adventure …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • make-believe — [adj] imagined, unreal acted, dream, false, fantasized, fantasy, fictional, fraudulent, imaginary, made up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated; concepts 529,582 Ant. real, true, unimagined make believe [n] unreality charade, disguise,… …   New thesaurus

  • Make Believe — Allge …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • make believe — index assume (simulate), fake, false (not genuine), feign, invent (falsify), pretend …   Law dictionary

  • make-believe — index delusive, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, imitation, mendacious, pretext Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • make-believe — *pretense, pretension …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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