make-believe (redirected from make-believes)

make-be·lieve (mkb-lv)

n.

Playful or fanciful pretense.

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make-be·lieve adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	make-believe - imaginative intellectual play pretense, pretence imagery, imaging, mental imagery, imagination - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
	2.	make-believe - the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" pretend pretending, pretense, feigning, simulation, pretence - the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
Adj.	1.	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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make-believe

noun

fantasy, imagination, pretence, charade, unreality, dream, play-acting She squandered her millions on a life of make-believe.
fantasy fact, reality, actuality, truthfulness

adjective

imaginary, dream, imagined, made-up, fantasy, pretend, pretended, mock, sham, unreal, fantasized Children withdraw at times into a make-believe world.
imaginary real, genuine, authentic, unfeigned

Translations

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪˌliːv]

A. ADJ → fingido, simulado; [world etc] → de ensueño, de fantasía
make-believe play/games → juegos mpl de fantasía

B. N don't worry, it's just make-believe → no te preocupes, no es de verdad
a land or world of make-believe → un mundo de ensueño or fantasía
to play at make-believe → jugar a ser personajes imaginarios

C. VI → fingir

D. VT to make-believe that → fingir que ..., hacer que ...

make-believe

adj attr → Fantasie-, Phantasie-, imaginär; a make-believe world → eine Fantasie- or Phantasie- or Scheinwelt

n → Fantasie f, → Phantasie f; a world of make-believe → eine Fantasie- or Phantasie- or Scheinwelt; don’t be afraid, it’s only make-believe → hab keine Angst, das ist doch nur eine Geschichte

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪˌliːv] n the land of make-believe → il mondo delle favole
it's just make-believe (activity) → è solo per finta (story) → sono frottole, è tutta un'invenzione

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make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪˌliːv] n the land of make-believe → il mondo delle favole
it's just make-believe (activity) → è solo per finta (story) → sono frottole, è tutta un'invenzione