MAKE-BELIEVE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the enactment of a pretense
   Synonym(s)
   • pretend (what does pretend mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • it was just pretend
   Hypernyms(s) make-believe is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • pretense (what does pretense mean?)
   • pretence (what does pretence mean?)
   • pretending (what does pretending mean?)
   • simulation (what does simulation mean?)
   • feigning (what does feigning mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • make (what does make mean?)
   • pretend (what does pretend mean?)
   • make believe (what does make believe mean?)
   • make (what does make mean?)
   • pretend (what does pretend mean?)
   • make believe (what does make believe mean?)
2. Meaning
   • imaginative intellectual play
   Synonym(s)
   • pretence (what does pretence mean?)
   • pretense (what does pretense mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) make-believe is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • imagination (what does imagination mean?)
   • imaging (what does imaging mean?)
   • imagery (what does imagery mean?)
   • mental imagery (what does mental imagery mean?)

MAKE-BELIEVE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • imagined as in a play
   Synonym(s)
   • pretend (what does pretend mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the make-believe world of theater
   • play money
   • dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
   Similar To
   • unreal (what does unreal mean?)