Meaning

1 senses
  1. (childish, sometimes)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.

More definitions
  • imagined as in a play

Origin

Deverbal from make believe.

Deverbal from make believe.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
make-believe — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto