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, make-believe, simulation, dissembling

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

2. make-believe, pretendadjective

   the enactment of a pretense

   "it was just pretend"

   Synonyms:
   pretense, pretence, pretend, make-believe

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

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, make-believe

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

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

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

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1. make believe

   Synonyms:
   feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect

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1. P. J. O'Rourke:

   With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

2. Maya MacGuineas:

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

3. Jack Sellers:

   Maricopa County Board of Supervisors 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, maricopa County Board of Supervisors's time to be done with this craziness.

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. Napoleon Bonaparte:

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