make-believe
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.1make–be·lieve
noun \ˈmāk-bə-ˌlēv\Definition of MAKE-BELIEVE
: a pretending that what is not real is real <a fiction writer's childish willingness to immerse himself in make–believe — John Updike>
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make–be·lieve also make–be·lief \-ˌlēf\
First Known Use of MAKE-BELIEVE
1811
2make–believe
adjectiveDefinition of MAKE-BELIEVE
First Known Use of MAKE-BELIEVE
1824
Related to MAKE-BELIEVE
- Synonyms
- chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, pretend, unreal, visonary
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