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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 1. fantasy, imagination, pretence, charade, unreality, dream, play-acting << OPPOSITE reality

adjective 2. imaginary, dream, imagined, made-up, fantasy, pretend, pretended, mock, sham, unreal, fantasized << OPPOSITE real

Translations

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪliːv] n → ficción f; fantasía

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪliːv] n a world of make-believe → un monde de chimères or d'illusions;

it's just make-believe → c'est de la fantaisie; c'est une illusion

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪliːv] make n → Fantasie f;

a world of make-believe make → eine Fantasiewelt;

it's just make-believe make → es ist nicht wirklich

make-believe [ˈmeɪkbɪliːv] n a world of make-believe → un mondo di favole;

it's just make-believe → è tutta un'invenzione