Search Result for "make-believe":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. imaginative intellectual play;
[syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe]
2. the enactment of a pretense;
- Example: "it was just pretend"
[syn: make-believe, pretend]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. imagined as in a play;
- Example: "the make-believe world of theater"
- Example: "play money"
- Example: "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
[syn: make-believe, pretend]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
make-believe \make"-be*lieve`\, n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." --Tylor. [1913 Webster] To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a. 1. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom he often talked. [PJC]
