| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imagined, unreal |
Synonyms: |
acted, dream, false, fantasized, fantasy, fictional, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated |
Antonyms: |
real, true, unimagined |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreality |
Synonyms: |
charade, disguise, dissimulation, dream, fairy tale, fakery, fantasy, imagination, pageant, playacting, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, sham |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | charade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | dissimulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, disguise |
Synonyms: |
beard, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, present a false face, present a false front, pretend |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, imitation |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, concocted, counterfeit, fabricated, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, invented, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
Antonyms: |
genuine, original, real, true, truthful |
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
Synonyms: |
actor, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, faker, flimflam, forgery, four-flusher, fraud, gold brick, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, junque, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, put-on, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick |
Antonyms: |
original, reality |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy, forged, framed, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong |
Antonyms: |
actual, genuine, real, valid |
| Main Entry: | feint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bait, blind, bluff, cheat, deceit, distraction, dodge, duck, expedient, fake, gambit, hoax, hoodwinking, imposture, make-believe, maneuver, mock attack, play, ploy, pretension, pretext, ruse, sham*, shift, snare, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile |
Antonyms: |
truth |