make-believe
1. imaginative intellectual play • Syn: pretense, pretence • Hypernyms: imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery 2. the enactment of a pretense - it was just pretend • Syn: pretend • Derivationally related forms: pretend (for: pretend), make believe • Hypernyms: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
imagined as in a play - the make-believe world of theater - play money - dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish • Syn: pretend • Similar to: unreal
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