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MAKE-BELIEVE

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• MAKE-BELIEVE (noun)
The noun MAKE-BELIEVE has 2 senses:

1. imaginative intellectual play
2. the enactment of a pretense

Familiarity information: MAKE-BELIEVE used as a noun is rare.

• MAKE-BELIEVE (adjective)
The adjective MAKE-BELIEVE has 1 sense:

1. imagined as in a play

Familiarity information: MAKE-BELIEVE used as an adjective is very rare.

• MAKE-BELIEVE (noun)

Sense 1

make-believe ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Imaginative intellectual play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

make-believe; pretense; pretence

Hypernyms ("make-believe" is a kind of...):

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)

Sense 2

make-believe ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The enactment of a pretense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pretend; make-believe

Context example:

it was just pretend

Hypernyms ("make-believe" is a kind of...):

feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)

• MAKE-BELIEVE (adjective)

Sense 1

make-believe ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Imagined as in a play

Synonyms:

make-believe; pretend

Context examples:

the make-believe world of theater / play money / dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish

Similar:

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

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(Arabic proverb)
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(Corsican proverb)

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mental imagery definition
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pretending definition

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