MAKE BELIEVE meaning: Pretend play, imagined or fictitious

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word make believe:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

make-believe, make believe: Merriam-Webster.com
make-believe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
make-believe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
make-believe, make-believe, make believe: Collins English Dictionary
make-believe, make believe: Vocabulary.com
Make-Believe, Make-believe, make-believe: Wordnik
make-believe, make believe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
make-believe, make believe: Wiktionary
make-believe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
make-believe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
make-believe: Infoplease Dictionary
Make-believe, make-believe, make believe: Dictionary.com
make-believe: Online Etymology Dictionary
make-believe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Make-believe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
make-believe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
make-believe, make believe: Rhymezone
make-believe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
make-believe, make believe: Free Dictionary
make-believe, make believe: Mnemonic Dictionary
make-believe, make believe: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

make-believe, make believe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

make believe: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

make believe: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

make believe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make believe)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, childish) To pretend or imagine.
▸ adjective:  imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially that of a child
▸ noun:  Alternative form of make-believe [(uncountable) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.]

Similar:

pretense, pretend, play, unreal, feign, play-act, come, intend, imaginify, imagine, more...

Opposite:

reality, truth, authenticity, actuality

Types:

fantasy, mirage, delusion, hallucination, pipe dream, more...

Phrases:

to make believe, It's Only Make Believe, The Land of Make Believe, We Only Make Believe, make someone believe, more...

Adjectives:

pretend, simular, simulate, acting, pretensed, ape, mock, feigned, marplot, fake

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