What is another word for make-believe?
Synonyms for make-believe
make-be·lieve
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Princeton's WordNet
pretense, pretence, make-believenoun
imaginative intellectual play
Synonyms:
pretend, pretending, pretence, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, simulation, dissemblingmake-believe, pretendadjective
the enactment of a pretense
"it was just pretend"
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:
pretendmake, 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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
make-believeadjective
Synonyms:
feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, simulatedmake-believenoun
Synonyms:
pretense, simulation, affectation, feint
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "make-believe":
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#26 | have | |
#47 | do | |
#77 | get | |
#108 | name | |
#125 | work | |
#132 | make | |
#246 | take | |
#368 | form | |
#552 | act | |
#555 | give | |
#568 | create | |
#907 | clear | |
#1048 | build | |
#1158 | score | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1292 | ready | |
#1551 | hit | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2273 | produce | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2773 | guess | |
#3085 | establish | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3140 | affect | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#3644 | earn | |
#4317 | simulation | |
#4404 | throw | |
#4513 | venture | |
#4781 | realize | |
#4793 | shit | |
#5138 | pee | |
#6262 | piss | |
#6492 | constitute | |
#7004 | construct | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#7887 | crap | |
#12747 | stimulate | |
#12748 | realise | |
#13188 | pretend | |
#13227 | wee | |
#13740 | stool | |
#14129 | induce | |
#14782 | attain | |
#15937 | imaginary | |
#17532 | nominate | |
#20014 | sham | |
#22910 | pretending | |
#29966 | puddle | |
#30656 | guise | |
#35820 | pretext | |
#35953 | seduce | |
#38812 | profess | |
#48205 | pretense | |
#58994 | urinate | |
#63572 | pretence | |
#88030 | pretension | |
#91169 | feign | |
#105408 | feigning | |
#135736 | defecate | |
#160975 | piddle | |
#169441 | dissembling | |
#181493 | dissemble |
How to use make-believe in a sentence?
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Free play is as good for developing minds as it is for growing bodies, through unfettered play, children interact with their world and stretch their creativity. To watch young children engaged in make-believe play is to be in awe of undiluted imagination.
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.
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.
We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns, you don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training… No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set.
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