make believe
114 synonyms found
- act
- act a part
- affect
- affected
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assume
- assumed
- bastard
- bluff
- brainchild
- brummagem
- charade
- chimera
- colorable
- colored
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- cover up
- delirium
- disguise
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distorted
- dressed up
- dummy
- eidolon
- embellished
- embroidered
- ersatz
- fabulous
- factitious
- fake
- faked
- falsified
- fantasque
- fantasy
- feign
- feigned
- fiction
- fictional
- fictitious
- fictive
- figment
- figmental
- four-flush
- gammon
- garbled
- hallucination
- idle fancy
- illusion
- imagery
- imagination
- imagining
- insubstantial image
- invention
- junky
- legendary
- let on
- let on like
- make a pretense
- make as if
- make like
- man-made
- mythic
- mythicized
- mythified
- mythological
- nonactual
- nonfactual
- nonrealistic
- pageant
- perverted
- phantasm
- phony
- pinchbeck
- play a part
- play possum
- playact
- pretend
- pretended
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- profess
- pseudo
- put on
- put-on
- quasi
- romance
- self-styled
- sham
- shoddy
- sick fancy
- simulate
- simulated
- so-called
- soi-disant
- spurious
- supposititious
- synthetic
- thick-coming fancies
- tin
- tinsel
- titivated
- trip
- unauthentic
- ungenuine
- unnatural
- unreal
- vision
- warped
- whim
- whimsy
- wildest dreams
Definition
"let's build a fort out of chairs and blankets and make believe we are pirates."
(adj) :
imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially when imagined by a child