What are some opposite words for make-believe?

Antonyms for make-believemake-be·lieve

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pretense, pretence, make-believenoun

    imaginative intellectual play

    Antonyms:
    real, existent

    Synonyms:
    pretend, pretending, pretence, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, simulation, dissembling

  2. make-believe, pretendadjective

    the enactment of a pretense

    "it was just pretend"

    Antonyms:
    real, existent

    Synonyms:
    pretense, pretence, pretend

  3. make-believe, pretendverb

    imagined as in a play

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

    Antonyms:
    existent, real

    Synonyms:
    pretend

  4. make, pretend, make believeverb

    represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

    "She makes like an actress"

    Antonyms:
    existent, real

    Synonyms:
    earn, create, take in, pass water, dissemble, relieve oneself, score, lay down, pull in, progress to, prepare, get, stool, make up, hit, arrive at, cook, attain, fix, establish, seduce, defecate, urinate, work, wee, puddle, reach, take, have, pee-pee, pretend, shit, stimulate, pee, get to, construct, act, throw, hazard, form, gain, micturate, take a shit, venture, cause, realise, do, give, crap, affect, take a leak, sham, induce, hold, clear, make water, spend a penny, produce, nominate, wee-wee, ready, piss, name, guess, take a crap, draw, bring in, make believe, constitute, feign, realize, piddle, profess, ca-ca, build, make

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. make-believeadjective

    Synonyms:
    feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, simulated

  2. make-believenoun

    Synonyms:
    pretense, simulation, affectation, feint

How to use make-believe in a sentence?

  1. Napoleon Bonaparte:

    Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

  2. Doris Day:

    My public image is unshakably that of America's wholesome virgin, the girl next door, carefree and brimming with happiness. An image, I can assure you, more make-believe than any film part I ever played.

  3. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

    To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  4. Jack Sellers:

    This board is done explaining anything to these people who are playing investigator with our constituents' ballots and equipment, paid for with real people's tax dollars. People's ballots and money are not make-believe, it's time to be done with this craziness.

  5. Arthur Lavin:

    If you're going to have a make-believe world, which fits into this very powerful sense of developing a sense of self, dinosaurs really fit the bill.

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