| Main Entry: | apish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
Synonyms: |
emulative, slavish |
| Main Entry: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
Synonyms: |
apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
| Main Entry: | mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
Synonyms: |
airish, apish, artificial, artsy, campy, chichi*, conscious, gone Hollywood, highfaluting, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, stuck up, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
natural, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | mock |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, fake |
Synonyms: |
apish, bogus*, counterfeit, dummy, ersatz*, faked, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hokey, imitation, imitative, make-believe, mimic, phony, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, quasi, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, unreal |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | emulative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imitative |
Synonyms: |
apish, copied, duplicated, mimetic, mimic, simulated, simulative |
| Main Entry: | la-di-da |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
Synonyms: |
apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, mannered, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |