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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bluffing, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, dissimulated, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, impostrous, imposturous, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, purported, put-on, quack, sham*, shammed, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play the part of |
| Synonyms: | act, assume the role, imagine, imitate, impersonate, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, masquerade, mimic, play, playact, portray, pose, purport, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act, represent, reproduce, suppose |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | alleged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asserted, often doubtful |
| Synonyms: | averred, declared, described, dubious, ostensible, pretended, professed, purported, questionable, so-called, stated, supposed, suspect, suspicious |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, sure |
| 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: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, not what it is cracked up to be, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, 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 |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ersatz |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial |
| Synonyms: | bogus, copied, counterfeit, fake, false, imitation, manufactured, phony, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious, substitute, synthetic |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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