make-believenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmeɪk.bɪˌliːv/us/ˈmeɪk.bɪˌliːv/disapprovingbelieving or imagining things that appear to be attractive or exciting, but are not real:
The ideal of a perfectly fair society is just make-believe.
He lives in a world of make-believe/make-believe world.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- false hopes
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- idealist
- illusion
- la-la land
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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