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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, fake |
| Synonyms: | bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, false, imitation, mock, not genuine, not kosher, not legit, not real, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, quasi, sham*, simulated, spurious, wrong |
| Notes: | pseudo is a prefix meaning 'counterfeit, deceptive, false' and it requires a hyphen when joined to a proper noun; quasi is a prefix meaning 'resembling' or 'in some manner' and it is usually hyphenated to a noun |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fake, forgery |
| Synonyms: | actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, junque, phony, pseudo, put-on, reproduction, sell*, sham, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | real thing, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
| Synonyms: | actor, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, faker, flimflam, forgery, four-flusher, fraud, gold brick, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, junque, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, put-on, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick |
| 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: | original, reality |
* = 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: | feigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, fake, faked, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*, simulated, spurious |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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