make-believe

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: pretensepretencepretend

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. imaginative intellectual playSynonyms: pretensepretence
  2. the enactment of a pretense“it was just pretend”Synonyms: pretend

Adjective (1)

  1. imagined as in a play“the make-believe world of theater”“play money”“dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish”Synonyms: pretend
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]

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