Translate make-believe | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of make-believe
noun
[mass noun] the action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are:she’s living in a world of make-believe
adjective
imitating something real:he was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes
verb
[no object] pretend; imagine: you can make-believe you’re swimming out in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean