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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1. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP -RRB- Lopez:

   I do n’t judge anybody. If you want to do Botox and injectables, that’s fine ! But I do n’t want people lying on me and saying, ‘ Oh, she’s trying to make believe that this stuff works,' no, I ’m telling you what I do that works ! Please do n’t call me a liar. I do n’t have to lie about things. I’ve been pretty honest about my whole life.

2. 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.

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. Arthur Lavin:

   If you're going to have a make-believe world, which fits into this very powerful sense of developing a sense of self, dinosaurs really fit the bill.

5. Denzel Washington:

   All we had to do was put the clothes on and start talking, i'm serious. What Ridley did, which was great, is he built Rome… When we would walk around, you were in Rome [with] 10,000 extras and horses. I mean, it was make-believe, it was play.