Make-believe

//ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv//

Synonyms for "make-believe" (92 found)

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affected apocryphal apparition appearance artificial assumed bastard bogus brainchild bubble charade chimera colored counterfeit delirium disguise distorted dummy eidolon

Strong matches (27)

Related words (46)

legendary maggot man made mimic mock myth mythical mythological perverted phantasm phantom phony pinchbeck pretended pretension pseudo put on quasi queer romance

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self-styled sham shoddy simulated so called spurious stretch of the imagination supposititious tin tinsel trip twisted unauthentic ungenuine unnatural unreal vapor vision warped whim whimsy wildest dream

Noun(3 words)

pretence pretend pretense

Adjective(1 words)

pretend

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feigning imagery imagination imaging mental imagery pretence pretending pretense simulation

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unreal

Sample sentences

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My daughter has a make-believe friend.

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Sami and Layla devised a make-believe world.

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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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In the morning of the 16th of March of 2022, I woke up from a dream about a grand amusement park where people did make-believe that they were really in a colony on Mars. The setting was a town that was a kind of bizarre fusion of Zanzibar and Hawaii. It was rustic and believable!

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