make-believe
make-believe · make-believes
притворство
Anschein, Vorwand, Vortäuschen
The quality or act of pretendingThe quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
/ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/
Meaning
3 senses(childish, sometimes, uncountable)The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
(childish, sometimes, uncountable)The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.
(childish, countable, sometimes)Something imaginary.
More definitions
- the enactment of a pretense
- imaginative intellectual play
Origin
Deverbal from make believe.Deverbal from make believe.
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Forms
plural: make-believesSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedmake believe
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.