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Nouns (13)

waxwork, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, American bittersweet, staff vine, climbing bittersweet

n. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds

bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara, poisonous nightshade, deadly nightshade, woody nightshade, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade

n. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (5)

false, faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably

adv. in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"

Adjectives (24)

bittersweet

adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

false

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

bittersweet, semisweet

adj. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness

unfaithful, false

adj. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"

false, mistaken

adj. arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

false, trumped up

adj. diverging from the truth: "a false statement"; "trumped up charge"

false, delusive

adj. inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

hollow, false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"

false, faithless

adj. (untrustworthy)

sour, false, off-key

adj. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

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"

Fuzzynyms (89)

apostate

adj. not faithful to religion or party or cause

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, 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"

corrupt, crooked

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

mock

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

artificial, unreal

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

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

cheating, adulterous, two-timing, untrue

adj. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend"

renegade, recreant, treacherous, traitorous

adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal

adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

sneaky, underhand, underhanded

adj. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"

inaccurate, erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"

faulty

adj. characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"

idle, baseless, groundless, unfounded

adj. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

false, mistaken

adj. arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

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"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

illusive, illusory

adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

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

mendacious, fallacious

adj. intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

false

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

faulty

adj. characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

artificial, unreal

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

unfaithful, disloyal, faithless

adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"

perfidious, treacherous

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, 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"

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"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

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

Synonyms (140)

blue, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted

adj. depressed

depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

melancholy, melancholic

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

pensive, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

tragic

adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

tragicomic, tragicomical

adj. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable

adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

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"

insincere, hypocritical

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

unfaithful, disloyal, faithless

adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"

ambrosial, ambrosian, nectarous

adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food"

bitter

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

bitterish

adj. somewhat bitter

choice, dainty, tasty

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy

adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

seasoned, flavored, flavoured

adj. aged or processed; "seasoned wood"

flavorful, flavourful, flavorous, flavourous, flavorsome, flavoursome, sapid, saporous

adj. full of flavor

rich, full-bodied

adj. marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

savory, savoury, piquant, spicy, zesty

adj. having an agreeably pungent taste

salt, salty

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

smoky

adj. tasting of smoke; "smoky sausages"

sour

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

sweet

adj. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

winy

adj. having the taste of wine; "a rich winy taste"

volatile, fickle

adj. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

inaccurate, erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"

lying, dishonest, mendacious

adj. given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child"

fantastic, fantastical, chimerical

adj. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

Kafkaesque

adj. characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations"

surreal, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic

adj. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

unreasonable

adj. not reasonable; not showing good judgment

obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish

adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous

adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative

adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"

gilded, spurious, meretricious, specious

adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

fly-by-night, shady

adj. of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

shifty

adj. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

tricky, slippery

adj. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic

adj. lacking in harmony

dissonant, unresolved

adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved

arranged, staged

adj. deliberately arranged for effect; "one of those artfully staged photographs"

colored, coloured, bleached, dyed

adj. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

cardboard, unlifelike

adj. without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"

celluloid, synthetic

adj. artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"

conventionalized, stylized, stylised

adj. using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; "a stylized mode of theater production"

dummy

adj. having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"

imitation, substitute, ersatz

adj. artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

factitious

adj. not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"

synthetic, man-made, semisynthetic

adj. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"

Antonyms (31)

true

adj. consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"

literal, actual, genuine

adj. being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

genuine

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

right, correct

adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

so, truthful

adj. conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"

fast, firm, loyal, truehearted

adj. unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends"

constant

adj. steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"

right, correct

adj. free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision"

truthful

adj. expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

genuine

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

frank, genuine

adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"

real, existent

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"

true

false bittersweet

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