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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How to use make-believe in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify:

   Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!

4. Michael Douglas:

   Evangeline and Paul, they were all cool, they had their suits on and it’s all make-believe, i said, there’s nothing here, man, there’s nothing here. What are we looking at? And, so you learn all of the tricks of the trade and how to be focused.

5. Napoleon Bonaparte:

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