Antonyms for make believemake be·lieve

Matched Categories

1. • Act

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pretense, pretence, make-believenoun

   imaginative intellectual play

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

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

2. make-believe, pretendadjective

   the enactment of a pretense

   "it was just pretend"

   Antonyms:
   existent, real

   Synonyms:
   pretense, pretence, pretend, make-believe

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"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   Synonyms:
   pretend, make-believe

4. make, pretend, make believeverb

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

   "She makes like an actress"

   Antonyms:
   real, existent

   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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. make believe

   Synonyms:
   feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect

How to use make believe in a sentence?

1. Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify:

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Maya MacGuineas:

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

5. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

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

How to pronounce make believe?

How to say make believe in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency