Synonyms for make-believe
make-be·lieve

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1. pretense, pretence, make-believenoun

   imaginative intellectual play

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

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

2. make-believe, pretendadjective

   the enactment of a pretense

   "it was just pretend"

   Synonyms:
   pretense, pretence, pretend

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

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"

   Synonyms:
   pretend

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

4. make, pretend, make believeverb

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

   "She makes like an actress"

   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

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

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1. make-believeadjective

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

2. make-believenoun

   Synonyms:
   pretense, simulation, affectation, feint

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1. List of paraphrases for "make-believe":

   pretend, pretending, imaginary

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1. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

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

2. Linda Wasmer Andrews:

   Free play is as good for developing minds as it is for growing bodies, through unfettered play, children interact with their world and stretch their creativity. To watch young children engaged in make-believe play is to be in awe of undiluted imagination.

3. William Hazlitt:

   Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

4. Maya MacGuineas:

   The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks.

5. Anne Douglas:

   We are living in a town of make-believe. I have done about 90 movies. That means that every time I was pretending to be someone else. There comes a time in your life when you say, well, 'who am I?' i have found writing books a good substitute to making pictures. When you write a book, you get to determine what part you are playing.