Definition of make-believe Make-believe
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We found 6 definitions of make-believe from 3 different sources.
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What does make-believe mean?
WordNet
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| make-believe - the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" | ||
| pretend | ||
| pretending, feigning, simulation, pretence, pretense the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | ||
| make-believe - imaginative intellectual play | ||
| pretense, pretence | ||
| imagery, mental imagery, imaging, imagination (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | ||
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| make-believe - imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" | ||
| pretend | ||
| unreal lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- make-believe (Noun)
The quality or act of pretending; assuming something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- make-believe (n.)
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. - make-believe (a.)
Feigned; insincere.
