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Adjective make believe has 1 sense
  1. make-believe, pretend - imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
    Antonyms: real, existent (indirect, via unreal)
,Noun make believe has 2 senses
  1. pretense, pretence, make-believe - imaginative intellectual play
    --1 is a kind of imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
  2. make-believe, pretend - the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend"
    --2 is a kind of pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
    Derived form: verb make believe1
,Verb make believe has 1 sense
  1. make, pretend, make believe - represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
    --1 is one way to act, play, represent
    Derived form: noun make-believe2
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