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MAKE-BELIEVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The enactment of a pretense
Example:
it was just pretend
Synonyms:
make-believe; pretend
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("make-believe" is a kind of...):
feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)
Derivation:
make believe (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like)
make-believe (imagined as in a play)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Imaginative intellectual play
Synonyms:
make-believe; pretence; pretense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("make-believe" is a kind of...):
imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)
Derivation:
make-believe (imagined as in a play)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Imagined as in a play
Example:
dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
Synonyms:
make-believe; pretend
Classified under:
Similar:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
Derivation:
make-believe (the enactment of a pretense)
make-believe (imaginative intellectual play)
