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. Amy Catalano:

   It was amazing, it felt like a movie prop, it looked make-believe almost.

2. Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify:

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

3. William Hazlitt:

   Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

4. Anne Douglas:

   We are living in a town of make-believe. I have done about 90 movies. That means that every time I was pretending to be someone else. There comes a time in your life when you say, well, 'who am I?' i have found writing books a good substitute to making pictures. When you write a book, you get to determine what part you are playing.

5. Napoleon Bonaparte:

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