| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, made up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid |
| 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: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
| Main Entry: | amiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; defective |
| Synonyms: | awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward |
| Antonyms: | good, right |
| Main Entry: | apocryphal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable; fake |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unauthenticated, ungenuine, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong |
| Antonyms: | authentic, doubtless, real, true |
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake; imitation |
| Synonyms: | bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, phony*, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural, unreal |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended; affected |
| Synonyms: | assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | arty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended expertise in art; affected interest |
| Synonyms: | affected, deceptive, ephemeral, false, flaunting, illusory, imitative, overblown, popular, popularized, pretentious, pseudo, tasteless |
| 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 |