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Making believe

Synonyms for "making believe" (136 found)

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General use (106)

Verb(20 words)

make put on assume pretend believe profess cover up feign dissemble let on faked counterfeited play a part playact titivated play possum go through the motions make as if mythicized mythified

Adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb(8 words)

fake counterfeit romance affected tinsel illegitimate colored whimsy

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Noun, verb(10 words)

affect vision disguise vapor pretension pageant charade whim imagining four-flush

Noun(15 words)

imitation invention illusion fiction imagery apparition phantasm presupposition myth delirium eidolon hallucination imagination figment pretentiousness

Adj, verb(15 words)

twisted perverted distorted warped assumed simulate garbled embellished pretended simulated embroidered feigned falsified dressed up dissimulate

Adj, noun(5 words)

unnatural ersatz legendary synthetic fictive

Adjective(19 words)

artificial supposititious unauthentic apocryphal spurious fictitious quasi man-made so-called self-styled fictional colorable factitious ungenuine fantasque figmental nonrealistic nonfactual nonactual

Name, noun(1 words)

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

make a show of act a part idle fancy insubstantial image sick fancy thick-coming fancies wildest dreams let on like make a pretense

Adj, adv(1 words)

Informal (30)

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

trip phony tin pretend maggot

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

fool bluff sham gammon

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, verb, slang(4 words)

bubble fantasy brainchild four flush

Adj, noun, slang(4 words)

shoddy phantom pseudo junky

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(4 words)

fabulous unreal mythological mythic

Noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(2 words)

bogus brummagem

Verb, slang(1 words)

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