Definitions for make-believe

make-believe make-be·lieve

Spelling: [meyk-bi-leev]
IPA: /ˈmeɪk bɪˌliv/

Make-Believe is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in make-believe (-abeeeeiklmv).

Definitions for make-believe

noun

  1. pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham:
  2. a pretender; a person who pretends.

adjective

  1. pretended; feigned; imaginary; made-up; unreal:

Origin of make-believe

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for make-believe

Then, after having finished my make-believe work, I retired.

It is understood that there is to be no make-believe about the fares.

We were at the CIA recently, and I broached this question because it was front and center in our make-believe intelligence agency.

They play a game called “neighborhood,” in which each boy sets up a make-believe house and Edrees stops by to talk.

All depends on the completeness and constancy with which the make-believe is supported.

Donetsk, formerly a make-believe republic, is turning into a little neo-Soviet state.

I can't say I'm happy, exactly, but Maud is and I'm goin' to make-believe be, for her sake.

As head of a state—even such a make-believe state as the Vatican—Joseph Ratzinger has absolute immunity from legal action.

Was this a conspiracy as charged in the indictment, or just some make-believe as the defense contends?

That was just like my runaway, all innocent acting and make-believe.

Word Value for make-believe
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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