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n. a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

n. an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

v. act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"

substitute, replace, interchange, exchange

v. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"

substitute, sub, stand in, fill in

v. be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"

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ersatz, substitute

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

alternate, alternative, substitute

adj. serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"

counterfeit, imitative

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

deceptive, misleading, shoddy

adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

unfaithful

adj. having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"

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"

probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative

adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

proxy, deputy

adj. acting as substitute for another

foster, surrogate

adj. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"

arranged, staged

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

bleached, colored, coloured, 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, conventionalised, 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"

factitious

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

fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated

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"

man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic

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

auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary

adj. functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

collateral

adj. accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

secondhand

adj. derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand; "a secondhand report"; "a secondhand account of a memory of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is secondhand"

second-string

adj. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team; "a second-string pitcher"

tributary

adj. paying tribute; "a tributary colony"

utility(a), substitute(a)

adj. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"

vicarious

adj. suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"

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