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adj. indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"

assumptive, taken for granted

adj. accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"

supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"

sham, pseudo, put on, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

Fuzzynyms (34)

artificial, contrived, stilted

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

insincere, hypocritical

adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

false

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

wrong, incorrect

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

apocryphal

adj. being of questionable authenticity

unverified

adj. lacking proof or substantiation

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

imitation, fake, false, simulated, faux

adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

affected, unnatural

adj. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

unrealistic

adj. not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

made-up, fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"

unnatural

adj. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"

Synonyms (42)

inherent, underlying, implicit in

adj. in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"

silent, inexplicit, implied, tacit, unstated

adj. indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"

unspoken, unsaid, unuttered, unverbalized, unvoiced

adj. not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"

presumed

adj. presumed to be true without conclusive evidence: "a village presumed to be under enemy control"

presumptive

adj. having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"

purported, reputed, rumored, rumoured

adj. commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth"

supposed, putative

adj. commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth"

verisimilar

adj. appearing to be true or real; "a verisimilar tale"

abstract, academic

adj. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

abstractive

adj. of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"

notional, hypothetical, speculative, hypothetic

adj. not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

metaphysical

adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"

theory-based

adj. based in theory rather than experiment; "theory-based arguments and positions"

bad, forged

adj. reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"

mock

adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"

professed, ostensible, ostensive

adj. represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"

pinchbeck

adj. serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"

synthetic

adj. not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will

Antonyms (5)

genuine

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

authentic, unquestionable, veritable, bona fide

adj. not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"

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