make-believe

  • (s) imagined as in a play
    • the make-believe world of theater
    • play money
    • dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
    pretend,

Nouns

  • (n) imaginative intellectual play pretense, pretence,
  • (n) the enactment of a pretense
    • it was just pretend
    pretend,

Verbs

  • (v) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
    • She makes like an actress
    pretend, make,

Synonyms

pretend pretense pretence make

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