Overview of noun make_believe

The noun make-believe has 2 senses

• pretense, pretence, make-believe -- (imaginative intellectual play)


• make-believe, pretend -- (the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend")

Overview of verb make_believe

The verb make believe has 1 sense

• make, pretend, make believe -- (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress")

Overview of adj make_believe

The adj make-believe has 1 sense

• make-believe, pretend -- (imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish")