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| Main Entry: |
simulated
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake |
| Synonyms: | artificial, assumed, counterfeit, derivative, factitious, fictitious, imitated, imitation, manmade, phony, sham, synthetic |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | hypothetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, hypothetical, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, imaginative, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intelle |
| Main Entry: | invented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, fake*, faked, false, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, made-up, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, suppositious, supposititious, synthetic, trumped-up, unreal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | la-di-da |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, mannered, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | notional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | suppositious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, supposititious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supposititious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | theoretic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, imaginative, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, notional, on paper, pedantic, philosophical, postulated, presumed, problematical, pure, quixotic, speculative, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated, vague |
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | receive by agreeing, consenting |
| Synonyms: | accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affirm, agree to, approve, assent, assume, avow, bear, buy, check out*, comply, concur with, cooperate with, give stamp of approval, give the go-ahead, give the green light, give the nod, go for, lap up, okay, recognize, rubber-stamp, set store by, sign, sign off on, take on*, take one up on, thumbs up, undertake |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | decline, disagree, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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