| 单词 | make-believe |
| 释义 | make-believe 1. uncountable noun If someone is living in a make-believe world, they are pretending that things are better, different, or more exciting than they really are instead of facing up to reality. [disapproval] ...the glamorous make-believe world of show business. She squandered millions on a life of make-believe. Synonyms: fantasy, imagination, pretence, charade 2. uncountable noun You use make-believe to refer to the activity involved when a child plays a game in which they pretend something, for example that they are someone else. She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister. ...his make-believe playmate. 3. adjective You use make-believe to describe things, for example in a play or film, that imitate or copy something real, but which are not what they appear to be. In the video, he danced down a make-believe street. The violence in those films was too unreal, it was make-believe. 'But, why?' he asked in make-believe astonishment. Synonyms: imaginary, dream, imagined, made-up Collocations: land of make-believe But it's also vacuous rhetoric that has led us away from truth and into a land of make-believe. Times, Sunday Times You couldn't disagree when he called it 'the land of make-believe': sadly he failed to penetrate the shimmering illusion. Times, Sunday Times These luvvies, they all live in a land of make-believe. The Sun |
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