英语词汇“make-believe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

make-believe

/ˈmeɪkbɪliːv

noun [mass noun]

The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are: she’s living in a world of make-believe...

There's no fairy-tale involved like Midsummer Night's Dream where there's make-believe.
Of course all photography is illusion, all cinema make-believe.
I could play make-believe, pretend away all the pain.

Synonyms

fantasy, pretence, pretending, daydreaming, dreaming, imagination, invention, fancy, dream, unreality, romancing, fabrication, play-acting, charade, masquerade, self-deception, illusion, delusion

adjective

Imitating something real: he was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes...

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.
He faced a little bush and lifted his make-believe gun.

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

verb [no object]

Pretend; imagine: you can make-believe you’re swimming out in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean...

I was knocking them together gently, make-believing that they were real entities, locked in fisticuffs, a classic battle of good versus evil.
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.
Children know how to imagine and make-believe, and how to play.

Synonyms

pretend, fantasize, indulge in fantasy, daydream, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain, dream, imagine, romance, fancy, play-act, play

单词	make-believe
释义	make-believe /ˈmeɪkbɪliːv / noun [mass noun] The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are: she’s living in a world of make-believe... There's no fairy-tale involved like Midsummer Night's Dream where there's make-believe. Of course all photography is illusion, all cinema make-believe. I could play make-believe, pretend away all the pain. Synonyms fantasy, pretence, pretending, daydreaming, dreaming, imagination, invention, fancy, dream, unreality, romancing, fabrication, play-acting, charade, masquerade, self-deception, illusion, delusion adjective Imitating something real: he was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes... 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. He faced a little bush and lifted his make-believe gun. 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 verb [no object] Pretend; imagine: you can make-believe you’re swimming out in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean... I was knocking them together gently, make-believing that they were real entities, locked in fisticuffs, a classic battle of good versus evil. 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. Children know how to imagine and make-believe, and how to play. 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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