make-believe
make-believe[ noun ]- imaginative intellectual play
<noun.cognition>
- the enactment of a pretense
<noun.act>
it was just pretend
[ adj ]- imagined as in a play
<adj.all>
the make-believe world of theater
play money
dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
Make-believe \Make"-be*lieve`\, a.
1. Feigned; insincere. ``Make-believe reverence.'' --G.
Eliot.
2. Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom
he often talked.
[PJC]
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.
To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. --M.
Arnold.
- 'That was not make-believe.
- A condominium owner who lost a legal war to keep his pickup truck in front of his home now parks a make-believe tank, complete with fake machine gun, outside.
- All seven participating astronauts and several other personnel received make-believe injuries in the four-hour pad test.
- We think of toyland as a fantasy world of make-believe, but the most successful playthings always reproduced reality as the child experieced it.
- "Nah, it's all in fun," said the retired trucker who now lives in Boulder, Colo. "This place is all make-believe.
- Like most Western get-ups, the president's make-believe Western gear will be capped by a belt buckle of grand proportions.
- The student, a third-grader, had drawn a picture of himself in jail, looking forlorn with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Above the drawing, he listed his make-believe crime: "Murder."
- This is the FBI!" The make-believe bad guys and witnesses who inhabit Hogan's Alley are amateur "role players" hired by the hour through a commercial talent agency.
- One youngster drew a picture of himself behind bars and wrote that murder was his make-believe crime.
- Buffeted by conflicting bids for our Yuletide attention, we scarcely know which is the way to cosy naturalism and which to state-of-the-art make-believe. The Pagemaster, promising on paper but flimsy on film, prompts another question.
- "The zoo is especially interesting for the kids," said Howard. "Yesterday, they got to see the make-believe animals at Disneyland.
- If Disney can build fantasy parks glorifying a make-believe mouse, Melvin Wilcox says Christians should be able to re-create Jerusalem in West Texas to tell the good news of Jesus Christ.
- Farley took pictures of Black and used them to "document" their make-believe life, Bird said.
- Analysts could go back to working out next year's probable earnings per share and deciding whether an investment made sense on that basis, rather than on make-believe projections. This is by no means the whole story.
- The make-believe emergency landing gave the astronauts and mission control center in Houston vital experience in making split-second decisions.
- That, police say, was just one prop in Hunt's pose as an astronaut during a period of make-believe that carried him through several states, speaking engagements and marriages.
- The participants all fell to the ground in make-believe death.
- It's one thing getting filmgoers to watch the make-believe violence of a "Nightmare on Elm Street."