What are some opposite words for make believe?

Antonyms for make believemake be·lieve

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  1. pretense, pretence, make-believenoun

    imaginative intellectual play

    Antonyms:
    real, existent

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

  2. make-believe, pretendadjective

    the enactment of a pretense

    "it was just pretend"

    Antonyms:
    existent, real

    Synonyms:
    pretense, pretence, pretend, make-believe

  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:
    real, existent

    Synonyms:
    pretend, make-believe

  4. make, pretend, make believeverb

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

    "She makes like an actress"

    Antonyms:
    real, existent

    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, constitute, feign, realize, piddle, profess, ca-ca, build, make

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. make believe

    Synonyms:
    feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect

How to use make believe in a sentence?

  1. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP -RRB- Lopez:

    I do n’t judge anybody. If you want to do Botox and injectables, that’s fine ! But I do n’t want people lying on me and saying, ‘ Oh, she’s trying to make believe that this stuff works,' no, I ’m telling you what I do that works ! Please do n’t call me a liar. I do n’t have to lie about things. I’ve been pretty honest about my whole life.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

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

  5. Alden Ehrenreich:

    As a kid, this character especially, Director Rian Johnson play make-believe and Director Rian Johnson kind of imagine what it would be like.

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