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Definition of make-believe in English: make-believenoun ˈmeɪkbɪliːvˈmeɪkbəˌliv mass nounThe action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are. she's living in a world of make-believe Example sentencesExamples - It must be nice to live in the land of make-believe.
- I could play make-believe, pretend away all the pain.
- And she found within days that it was all just make-believe.
- That's really how it began: me playing make-believe in front of the house, shooting at an imaginary basket with a ball of rags.
- The virtual, as associated with VR, is seen as a kind of pretend reality, or make-believe.
- So I think, Sir, that these stories are all make-believe; there are no kings and princes, or goblins or gold.
- I was angry with his seven-year game of make-believe.
- In fact, has not experience taught us that adults are more susceptible to make-believe than children, and far more skilled at creating it?
- Politicians and the media engage in sanctioned make-believe.
- Compared to astrophotographs, images of computer simulations often seem like shabby make-believes.
- The country's economy, too, was a land of make-believe.
- The novelist instantly senses make-believe, and so do we.
- This city is often described as one of dreams and fantasy, of tinselish make-believe.
- But I have learned the hard way that Superman is make-believe.
- Of course all photography is illusion, all cinema make-believe.
- There's no fairy-tale involved like Midsummer Night's Dream where there's make-believe.
- Well, that wasn't make-believe but a reality for one man, Timothy Treadwell.
- Collect any piece of clothing or accessory that could lend itself to make-believe.
- The only option for survival is submerging oneself in an illusion of meaning, a world of make-believe.
- Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy.
Synonyms fantasy, pretence, pretending, daydreaming, dreaming, imagination, invention, fancy, dream, unreality, romancing, fabrication, play-acting, charade, masquerade, self-deception, illusion, delusion
adjective ˈmeɪkbɪliːvˈmeɪkbəˌliv Imitating something real. he was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes Example sentencesExamples - After this epiphany, she and Furii work to dismantle the fantasies of Deborah's make-believe world.
- I liked to fill it with various objects represented the ‘equipment’ I'd need for my current make-believe mission.
- He faced a little bush and lifted his make-believe gun.
- The media and the Democrats sustain each other's make-believe land.
- However, I am deeply concerned with what goes on within the REAL world not the make-believe one of Hollywood.
- There is an interesting story here - in fact, the only story of Mai that isn't make-believe.
- We spent days ‘shooting’ each other with our toy guns and kicking make-believe stirrups into imaginary horses.
- He turned his hand in to the shape of a gun and he pulled the make-believe trigger towards my head.
- I'm not dead, just living in a make-believe world right now.
- This is when hundreds of communists and non-communists ‘confessed’ to make-believe crimes in show trials.
- It's a real-world situation in a make-believe town.
- And those of us who actually make up that make-believe market share?
- And the judge said ‘Guilty’ in a make-believe trial and slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
- But the 42-year-old Cruise shrugs it off as just another make-believe soul that grabbed him.
- If only I could have lived in that make-believe world where a mother displayed her affection for her daughter without hesitation.
- Which brings me back to that make-believe laundry pile and my own lesson: uncovering a life purpose by defining my values.
- In the beginning of the story, Mia is in Genovia, the make-believe country that seems so real.
- Are they all totally imaginary, inspired by real people, or just an amalgam of the make-believe world and the real one?
- It weakens their precarious hold on their make-believe world.
- She threw my make-believe corpse into a real open grave while I haunted.
Synonyms imaginary, imagined, pretended, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, sham, simulated, pseudo, false, spurious informal pretend, phoney South African play-play
verbˈmeɪkbɪliːvˈmeɪkbəˌliv [no object]Pretend; imagine. you can make-believe you're swimming out in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean Example sentencesExamples - I was knocking them together gently, make-believing that they were real entities, locked in fisticuffs, a classic battle of good versus evil.
- Two Czech students hoodwinked the media and most of Prague by the look of it, make-believing that they were building a hypermarket and shopping precinct.
- But I make-believed the dyno and tried the mantle… and did it!
- Nigel Hadgkiss can make-believe all he wants in the Tool Shed this week while he protects the murderers in the industry, all he's done so far is make Inspector Clouseau look like Perry Mason.
- As long as they stayed out of NATO's hair, that is, the Russians could go on make-believing that they were playing a crucial role in the occupation of Kosovo.
- Children know how to imagine and make-believe, and how to play.
- When the teens were younger they used to play a game, where they would make-believe that they all lived in the royal palace in the middle of the city.
- But at the same time, you're all playing it with me and make-believing your own reality… that's what imagination is for by the way.
- The dark-haired child gave way to her sister's commands, slinking to the base of the stone pedestal that would be make-believed into a high and impenetrable lair.
- Whether he or she is an outgoing sailor or a free spirited pirate we have the supplies to keep them make-believing.
- Whilst we were running down there was a ‘roar from the crowd’ and Tom Courtney walked along the road behind us and make-believed the ‘roar’ was from the crowd at a Nuremburg rally saluting him’.
- The tea parties were make-believed but the talks and the memories were real.
Synonyms pretend, fantasize, indulge in fantasy, daydream, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain, dream, imagine, romance, fancy, play-act, play
Definition of make-believe in US English: make-believenounˈmākbəˌlēvˈmeɪkbəˌliv The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are. she's living in a world of make-believe Example sentencesExamples - I could play make-believe, pretend away all the pain.
- Of course all photography is illusion, all cinema make-believe.
- The novelist instantly senses make-believe, and so do we.
- Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy.
- The only option for survival is submerging oneself in an illusion of meaning, a world of make-believe.
- It must be nice to live in the land of make-believe.
- Collect any piece of clothing or accessory that could lend itself to make-believe.
- Compared to astrophotographs, images of computer simulations often seem like shabby make-believes.
- Politicians and the media engage in sanctioned make-believe.
- The country's economy, too, was a land of make-believe.
- There's no fairy-tale involved like Midsummer Night's Dream where there's make-believe.
- That's really how it began: me playing make-believe in front of the house, shooting at an imaginary basket with a ball of rags.
- Well, that wasn't make-believe but a reality for one man, Timothy Treadwell.
- So I think, Sir, that these stories are all make-believe; there are no kings and princes, or goblins or gold.
- This city is often described as one of dreams and fantasy, of tinselish make-believe.
- In fact, has not experience taught us that adults are more susceptible to make-believe than children, and far more skilled at creating it?
- But I have learned the hard way that Superman is make-believe.
- I was angry with his seven-year game of make-believe.
- And she found within days that it was all just make-believe.
- The virtual, as associated with VR, is seen as a kind of pretend reality, or make-believe.
Synonyms fantasy, pretence, pretending, daydreaming, dreaming, imagination, invention, fancy, dream, unreality, romancing, fabrication, play-acting, charade, masquerade, self-deception, illusion, delusion
adjectiveˈmākbəˌlēvˈmeɪkbəˌliv Imitating something real; pretend. he was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes Example sentencesExamples - This is when hundreds of communists and non-communists ‘confessed’ to make-believe crimes in show trials.
- Which brings me back to that make-believe laundry pile and my own lesson: uncovering a life purpose by defining my values.
- I'm not dead, just living in a make-believe world right now.
- Are they all totally imaginary, inspired by real people, or just an amalgam of the make-believe world and the real one?
- She threw my make-believe corpse into a real open grave while I haunted.
- We spent days ‘shooting’ each other with our toy guns and kicking make-believe stirrups into imaginary horses.
- And those of us who actually make up that make-believe market share?
- The media and the Democrats sustain each other's make-believe land.
- He turned his hand in to the shape of a gun and he pulled the make-believe trigger towards my head.
- There is an interesting story here - in fact, the only story of Mai that isn't make-believe.
- In the beginning of the story, Mia is in Genovia, the make-believe country that seems so real.
- And the judge said ‘Guilty’ in a make-believe trial and slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
- After this epiphany, she and Furii work to dismantle the fantasies of Deborah's make-believe world.
- He faced a little bush and lifted his make-believe gun.
- I liked to fill it with various objects represented the ‘equipment’ I'd need for my current make-believe mission.
- It weakens their precarious hold on their make-believe world.
- It's a real-world situation in a make-believe town.
- However, I am deeply concerned with what goes on within the REAL world not the make-believe one of Hollywood.
- But the 42-year-old Cruise shrugs it off as just another make-believe soul that grabbed him.
- If only I could have lived in that make-believe world where a mother displayed her affection for her daughter without hesitation.
Synonyms imaginary, imagined, pretended, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, sham, simulated, pseudo, false, spurious
verbˈmākbəˌlēvˈmeɪkbəˌliv Pretend; imagine. with clause Brenda rode along, make-believing she was a knight riding to the rescue Example sentencesExamples - Nigel Hadgkiss can make-believe all he wants in the Tool Shed this week while he protects the murderers in the industry, all he's done so far is make Inspector Clouseau look like Perry Mason.
- As long as they stayed out of NATO's hair, that is, the Russians could go on make-believing that they were playing a crucial role in the occupation of Kosovo.
- When the teens were younger they used to play a game, where they would make-believe that they all lived in the royal palace in the middle of the city.
- Whether he or she is an outgoing sailor or a free spirited pirate we have the supplies to keep them make-believing.
- But I make-believed the dyno and tried the mantle… and did it!
- The dark-haired child gave way to her sister's commands, slinking to the base of the stone pedestal that would be make-believed into a high and impenetrable lair.
- I was knocking them together gently, make-believing that they were real entities, locked in fisticuffs, a classic battle of good versus evil.
- Two Czech students hoodwinked the media and most of Prague by the look of it, make-believing that they were building a hypermarket and shopping precinct.
- Children know how to imagine and make-believe, and how to play.
- Whilst we were running down there was a ‘roar from the crowd’ and Tom Courtney walked along the road behind us and make-believed the ‘roar’ was from the crowd at a Nuremburg rally saluting him’.
- The tea parties were make-believed but the talks and the memories were real.
- But at the same time, you're all playing it with me and make-believing your own reality… that's what imagination is for by the way.
Synonyms pretend, fantasize, indulge in fantasy, daydream, build castles in the air, build castles in spain, dream, imagine, romance, fancy, play-act, play
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