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Nouns (11)

fake, postiche

n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

fraud, fake, role player, imposter, impostor, pretender, faker, pseudo, pseud

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Verbs (9)

affect, feign, pretend, dissemble

v. make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

assume, feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (6)

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"

Fuzzynyms (112)

copy

n. a secondary representation of an original; "she made a copy of the designer dress"

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

quack

n. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

pharisee

n. a self-righteous or sanctimonious person

defamer, maligner, slanderer, libeler, backbiter, traducer, libeller

n. one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

crook, criminal, felon, outlaw

n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

thief

n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

sham, assume, feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

ham, overact, overplay

v. exaggerate one's acting

trick, fox, fob, play a trick on

v. deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"

bunco, con, gyp, swindle, rook, mulct, nobble, diddle, defraud

v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

gull, fool, dupe, befool

v. make a fool or dupe of

cheat

v. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"

dribble, drool, drivel, slobber, slaver, slabber

v. let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"

sham, affect, feign, pretend, dissemble

v. make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

pretend, assert falsely

v. make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

imagine, ideate, conceive of, envisage

v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

cause, create, originate

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

manufacture, construct, fabricate

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

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 (11)

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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