Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| 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: | actual, genuine, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | labored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand, unclear |
| Synonyms: | affected, arduous, awkward, clumsy, contrived, effortful, forced, hard, heavy, inept, maladroit, operose, overdone, overwrought, ponderous, stiff, strained, strenuous, studied, toilsome, unnatural, uphill, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, natural, relaxed |
| Main Entry: | premeditated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | planned, intended |
| Synonyms: | advised, aforethought, calculated, conscious, considered, contrived, deliberate, designed, fixed, framed up, intentional, laid-out, prepense, purposed, rigged, set-up, sewn-up, stacked deck, studied, thought-out, willful |
| Antonyms: | accidental, casual, spontaneous |
| Main Entry: | spurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit, fake |
| Synonyms: | affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent, bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*, simulated, specious, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, unreal |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unnatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not regular; artificial |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, concocted, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, fabricated, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, freaky, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up, make-believe, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, put-on, queer, staged, stiff, stilted, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unconforming, unorthodox, unusual |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | made |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fashioned |
| Synonyms: | built, contrived, finished, formed, invented, manufactured, shaped |
| Notes: | made means produced by a manufacturing process, while a maid is a female servant or an unmarried girl |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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