'make believe' definitions:
Definition of 'make believe'
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Definition of 'make believe'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'make believe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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