noun
1. imaginative intellectual play
• Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaging, ↑imagery, ↑mental imagery
2. the enactment of a pretense
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it was just pretend
• Syn: ↑pretend
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pretend (for: ↑pretend), ↑make believe
• Hypernyms: ↑pretense, ↑pretence, ↑pretending, ↑simulation, ↑feigning
adjective
imagined as in a play
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the make-believe world of theater
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play money
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dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
• Syn: ↑pretend
• Similar to: ↑unreal
Useful english dictionary. 2012.