Synonyms for make-believe
- adjective
- noun
- verb
All synonyms
Adjective
sham, pretended, simulated, unreal, mock, feigned, spurious, assumed, counterfeit, unauthentic, supposititious dated
Noun
1. Pretense
pretense US, pretence UK, pretension, feint
Verb
make pretend, make as if, feign, dissemble, affect
Definitions
- adj. 1
Imaginary; not real; pretend.
He called himself Lord So-and-So, even had his family crest on the wall, but it was all totally make-believe.
- n. 1
The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
- v. 1
To pretend or imagine.
Let's make believe that we are explorers.
Related words
- Other spellings
- make believe makebelieve
Forms
- Plural
- make-believes → pretenses, pretensions, feints, makes…
Example sentences
- unreal I find the concept of Globish restrictive and unreal.
- pretended I pretended that I didn't know what was happening.
- simulated The proposed method is applied to three simulated case studies.
- sham This sham election is a disgrace to democracy.
- feigned He feigned not to notice the two strangers.
By length
- 4 letters
- make1, mock1, sham1
- 5 letters
- feign1, feint1
- 6 letters
- affect2, unreal2
- 7 letters
- assumed2, pretend2, feigned1
- 8 letters
- spurious3, pretense2, pretence
- 9 letters
- pretended3, simulated4, dissemble3
- 10 letters
- pretension3
- 11 letters
- counterfeit3, unauthentic4
- 14 letters
- supposititious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (affect2 = 2 syllables).