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Synonyms for makebelieve
adj imagined, unreal

imaginary
fictional
simulated
fantasy

pretend
dream
mock
sham

fraudulent
made-up
pretended
false

acted
fantasized

Antonyms for makebelieve

real
genuine

true
unimagined

Synonyms
noun unreality

charade
pageant
fantasy
disguise

pretense
imagination
pretentiousness
pretension

dream
sham
fairy tale
playacting

dissimulation
fakery

Antonyms

reality
honesty

existence
truth

substance

Synonyms
adj pretended

affected
simulated
pretended
feigned
fake

counterfeit
sham
artificial
bogus
fictitious

imitation
made-up
make-believe
phony
spurious

put-on
false

Antonyms

real
sincere
unexpected

genuine
true
natural

unassumed

Synonyms
noun pretense

deception
travesty
farce
pageant

disguise
fake
trick
pretension

pretentiousness
make-believe
put-on
mimicry

parody
pantomime

Antonyms

reality

honesty

truth

Synonyms
noun covering, makeup for deception

guise
veil
cloak
camouflage
trickery
blind
color
pretension
costume
facade

dress
counterfeit
coloring
pseudonym
concealment
charade
illusion
veneer
semblance
masquerade

screen
put-on
front
pretense
cover-up
pageant
mask
face
pretentiousness
make-believe

beard
false front
pen name
red herring
smoke screen
faking
dissimulation
fig leaf
get-up

Antonyms

honesty
personality
reality

back
rear
truth

character

Synonyms
verb conceal, disguise

feign
hide
pretend
mask

cloak
camouflage
dissemble
deceive

fake
beard
dress up
make-believe

present a false face
present a false front

Antonyms

uncover
unmask

reveal
show

be honest

Synonyms
adj false, imitation

spurious
phony
fraudulent
fictitious
forged

counterfeit
mock
bogus
affected
pseudo

assumed
pretended
reproduction
simulated
make-believe

invented
sham
artificial
fabricated
concocted

Antonyms

authentic
real
sincere

truthful
genuine
true

original

Synonyms
noun imposter, copy

trick
scam
phony
hoax
forgery
deception
counterfeit
fabrication
sham

cheat
sleight
faker
imitation
imposition
actor
mountebank
imposture
plant

flimflam
put-on
pretender
spoof
pretense
swindle
fraud
pseudo
reproduction

make-believe
charlatan
four-flusher
bluffer
gold brick
junque

Antonyms

frankness
honesty

reality
truth

original

Synonyms
adj fake, counterfeit

contrived
deceptive
spurious
phony
wrong
unreal
forged
hollow
bogus
adulterated
artificial

assumed
bent
bum
colored
crock
disguised
ersatz
factitious
feigned
fishy
framed

imitation
made-up
make-believe
manufactured
meretricious
mock
ostensible
pretended
pseudo
seeming
shady

sham
simulated
snide
so-called
substitute
synthetic
alloyed
brummagem
fabricated
copied

Antonyms

frank
honest
truthful
authentic
real
sincere
factual

known
valid
reliable
genuine
accurate
actual
correct

precise
right
substantiated
true
just
straight

Synonyms
noun pretense

ruse
blind
stratagem
bait
cheat
artifice
hoax
pretension

fake
pretext
duck
ploy
imposture
dodge
maneuver
play

bluff
wile
deceit
snare
distraction
shift
trick
stall

subterfuge
expedient
make-believe
sham
gambit
hoodwinking
mock attack

Antonyms

frankness
honesty

reality
truthfulness

openness
truth

Synonyms
adj untrue, made-up

mythical
spurious
apocryphal
fictional
phony
misleading
fanciful
bogus
make-believe
imaginary
counterfeit
sham

artificial
assumed
chimerical
deceptive
delusive
dishonest
ersatz
factitious
fake
fantastic
fashioned
feigned

illusory
imagined
improvised
made
mock
queer
romantic
simulated
synthetic
unreal
delusory
fictive

invented
suppositious
supposititious
false
fabricated
concocted
cooked-up
created
faked
figmental
hyped up
trumped-up

Antonyms

factual
real
honest
truthful
authentic

sincere
confirmed
genuine
true
actual

certain
proven
sure

Synonyms
noun false appearance; false belief

semblance
deception
myth
confusion
image
delusion
fantasy
misconception
hallucination
pipe dream

ghost
rainbow
bubble
apparition
mockery
fancy
invention
chimera
misapprehension
error

mirage
make-believe
daydream
phantasm
trip
hocus-pocus
fallacy
false impression
head trip
optical illusion

seeming
virtual reality
paramnesia
figment of imagination
idolism
ignus fatuus
misbelief
misimpression
fool’s paradise
déjà vu

Antonyms

reality
truth
fact

being
certainty
correction

right
event

Synonyms
noun fraud, trick

stratagem
cheat
sleight
artifice
hoax
pretension
imitation
fake
wile
sell

impersonation
deception
imposition
ploy
forgery
quackery
counterfeit
illusion
sham
maneuver

masquerade
phony
feint
flimflam
hocus-pocus
make-believe
deceit
spoof
copy
pretense

fabrication
swindle
ruse
fiddle
put-on
gambit
con

Antonyms

frankness
honesty
reality

truthfulness
uprightness
honor

openness
truth
original

Synonyms
adj invented mentally

fictional
imaginary
make-believe

mythical
prepared
specious

unreal
untrue
fabricated

false
trumped-up

Antonyms

real

original

true

Synonyms
adj artificial, fake

make-believe
bogus
phony
simulated
dummy
ersatz
pseudo

pretended
mimic
feigned
imitation
put-on
counterfeit
forged

substitute
sham
apish
fraudulent
hokey
imitative
quasi

so-called
spurious
unreal
faked
false

Antonyms

real
sincere

authentic
genuine

true

Synonyms
noun spectacle or contest

parade
fair
ritual
procession

tableau
extravaganza
celebration
pomp

show
exposition
exhibition
motorcade

make-believe
charade
display

Antonyms

reality

hiding

truth

Synonyms
adj alleged; imaginary

mock
fake
professed
counterfeit
cheating
assumed
avowed
covered
masked
affected

concealed
quack
pretend
feigned
supposed
simulated
sham
falsified
lying
artificial

bogus
charlatan
factitious
fictitious
make-believe
ostensible
phony
pseudo
so-called
spurious

put-on
purported
shammed
bluffing
dissimulated
false
impostrous
imposturous

Antonyms

real
sincere
genuine

original
true
exposed

open
revealed
bare

Synonyms
noun falsehood, affected show; cover

charade
pretext
semblance
cloak
veneer
claim
mask
gag
invention
artifice
facade
affectation
ruse

double-dealing
deception
trickery
evasion
acting
routine
sham
masquerade
misstatement
ostentation
insincerity
excuse
wile

deceit
stunt
misrepresentation
veil
fabrication
appearance
simulation
pretentiousness
stall
subterfuge
act
guise
make-believe

display
posing
dissimulation
fakery
shuffling
feigning
falsification
schtick
posturing
dumb act
faking

Antonyms

reality
frankness
honesty
truthfulness

simplicity
uprightness
quiet
truth

honor
openness

Synonyms
noun false claim, assertion of importance

aspiration
pretense
ambition
ambitiousness

maintenance
title
pageant
declaration

profession
disguise
assumption
make-believe

allegation
demand
pretext
charade

Antonyms

reality
honesty

humility
truth

Synonyms
adj artificial, counterfeit

fraudulent
fictitious
phony
bogus
fake
dummy
affected

ersatz
mock
assumed
plaster
pretend
pseudo
misleading

pretended
synthetic
feigned
imitation
simulated
make-believe
forged

adulterated
lying
substitute
so-called
spurious
untrue
false

Antonyms

authentic
real
sincere

truthful
honest
genuine

true
natural

Synonyms
noun false front; appearance given

display
parade
impression
seeming
profession
affectation
pretext

air
simulacrum
splash
illusion
sham
semblance
showing

pose
effect
ostentation
front
pretense
shine
likeness

face
guise
make-believe
showboat
grandstand play

Antonyms

quiet
reality
back

rear
concealment
truth

hiding

Synonyms
adj counterfeit, fake

specious
bogus
phony
affected
apocryphal
artificial
assumed
bastard
bent

bum
contrived
deceitful
deceptive
dummy
ersatz
feigned
forged
framed

illegitimate
imitation
make-believe
mock
pirate
pretend
pretended
pseudo
sham

simulated
substitute
unreal
put-on
false
faked
unauthentic
ungenuine

Antonyms

real
valid

authentic
true

genuine

Synonyms
adj not regular; artificial

unusual
perverse
stilted
incredible
abnormal
outlandish
preposterous
outrageous
strange
bizarre
odd
affected
aberrant

anomalous
assumed
contrary
contrived
ersatz
extraordinary
factitious
feigned
forced
freakish
imitation
insincere
irregular

labored
made-up
make-believe
perverted
phony
pseudo
queer
stiff
strained
studied
supernatural
synthetic
theatrical

unaccountable
uncanny
unorthodox
freaky
put-on
false
concocted
fabricated
staged
unconforming

Antonyms

standard
usual
sensible
acceptable

real
common
familiar
normal

regular
reasonable
genuine
natural

Synonyms
adj fictitious

made-up
fanciful
make-believe

imaginary
imagined
fictive

invented
pretend
fabricated

Antonyms

real

true

Synonyms
adj fictitious

fanciful
fictional
imaginary

imagined
invented
made-up

make-believe
pretend
fabricated

Synonyms
noun illusion

apparition
bubble
chimera
confusion
daydream
deception
delusion
error
fallacy
false impression
fancy

fantasy
ghost
hallucination
head trip
hocus-pocus
image
invention
make-believe
mirage
misapprehension
misconception

mockery
myth
optical illusion
phantasm
phantasma
pipe dream
rainbow
seeming
semblance
trip
virtual reality

deja vu
figment of imagination
idolism
ignus fatuus
misbelief
misimpression
paramnesia
fool’s paradise
will-o’-the-wisp

Synonyms
adj fictitious

made-up
assumed
fictional
unreal
fanciful
simulated
imaginary
imagined
made
improvised
queer
misleading
feigned

fashioned
fake
sham
mock
counterfeit
apocryphal
artificial
bogus
chimerical
deceptive
delusive
delusory
dishonest

ersatz
factitious
fantastic
fantastical
fictive
illusory
make-believe
mythical
phony
romantic
spurious
suppositious
supposititious

synthetic
created
fabricated
concocted
faked
cooked-up
false
figmental
hyped up
trumped-up

Antonyms

real
truthful

true
genuine

Synonyms
adj assumed

affected
artificial
bogus
counterfeit
fake

feigned
fictitious
imitation
made-up
make-believe

phony
pretended
put-on
sham
simulated

spurious
false