- make-believe
- nounFalse; untrue; created by illusion.
The creatures of Star Wars are all make-believe.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
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Make Believe — may refer to: Contents 1 Music 1.1 Albums 1.2 Songs 2 … Wikipedia
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
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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
make-believe — (n.) pretence, 1811, from MAKE (Cf. make) (v.) + BELIEVE (Cf. believe). As an adjective by 1824 … Etymology dictionary
make believe — make be*lieve , v. i. To pretend; often used with that, but often having the that omitted; as, he made believe he didn t hear her; or he made believe that he didn t hear her. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
make-believe — make be.lieve n [U] when you imagine or pretend that something is real or true ▪ He seems to be living in a world of make believe . ▪ children in the middle of a make believe adventure … Dictionary of contemporary English
make-believe — [adj] imagined, unreal acted, dream, false, fantasized, fantasy, fictional, fraudulent, imaginary, made up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated; concepts 529,582 Ant. real, true, unimagined make believe [n] unreality charade, disguise,… … New thesaurus
Make Believe — Allge … Deutsch Wikipedia
make believe — index assume (simulate), fake, false (not genuine), feign, invent (falsify), pretend … Law dictionary
make-believe — index delusive, fictitious, hypothetical, illusory, imitation, mendacious, pretext Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
make-believe — *pretense, pretension … New Dictionary of Synonyms
