make-believe
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
imaginative intellectual play
Types & categories
- imaging hypernym
Related & opposite
- make-believe derivation
Sense 2 adjective
imagined as in a play
the make-believe world of theater
Related & opposite
- pretend derivation
- make-believe derivation
- unreal similar to
Sense 3 noun
the enactment of a pretense
it was just pretend
Types & categories
- pretense hypernym
Related & opposite
- make believe derivation
- make-believe derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | make-believe |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | imaging |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretend |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | make-believe |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unreal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | make believe |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | make-believe |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pretense |