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| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake; imitation |
| Synonyms: | bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, factitious, false, manufactured, mock, phony*, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural, unreal, fabricated, faked, falsie, hyped up |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended; affected |
| Synonyms: | assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, spurious, theatrical, unnatural, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, not what it is cracked up to be |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | camp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consciously affecting the unfashionable, weird, or bizarre |
| Synonyms: | affected, arch, artificial, avant-garde, far out, mannered, mod, ostentatious, pop, wild, Daliesque, in, posturing |
| Main Entry: | contrived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, overdone, phony, strained, unnatural, manipulated, recherché, unspontaneous |
| Main Entry: | exaggerated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overstated, embellished |
| Synonyms: | abstract, artificial, distorted, exalted, excessive, extravagant, fabulous, false, fantastic, farfetched, histrionic, impossible, inflated, melodramatic, overblown, overdone, overwrought, preposterous, pretentious, sensational, spectacular, steep, strained, tall, too much*, unrealistic, a bit thick, amplified, bouncing, caricatural, embroidered, fabricated, hammy, highly colored, hyperbolic, magnified, out of proportion, overestimated, overkill, schmaltzy, stylized, too-too |
| Antonyms: | reduced, unembellished, depreciated, minimized, played down, understated, unexaggerated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, imitation |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious, concocted, fabricated, invented |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Antonyms: | genuine, original, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fake, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, spurious, fabricated, faked, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, binding, bound, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden*, begrudging, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, grudging |
| Antonyms: | spontaneous, voluntary, noncompulsory, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genteel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy*, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered, cultivated, distingué, la-di-da |
| Antonyms: | boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | holier-than-thou |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteously pious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, goody-goody, sanctimonious, smug, snobbish, unctuous, high-hat, judgmental, pietistic, simon-pure |
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, deceptive, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, fishy*, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, left-handed, lying, oily, phony, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced*, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, caviling, deluding, dissembling, feigning, jivey, moralistic, pharisaical, pietistic, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, put-on |
| Synonyms: | apish*, artificial, chichi*, conscious, posed, pretentious, self-conscious, stilted, unnatural, airish, artsy, campy, gone Hollywood, highfaluting*, stuck up |
| Antonyms: | natural, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | melodramatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant in speech, behavior |
| Synonyms: | artificial, cloak-and-dagger, exaggerated, ham*, histrionic, hokey*, sensational, spectacular, theatrical, blood-and-thunder, cliff-hanging, hammy, overdramatic, overemotional, stagy |
| Antonyms: | calm, normal, untheatrical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, unnatural, finical, la-di-da, too-too |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | phony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, false |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, forged, imitation, pseudo, sham*, spurious, trick, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy and strict in behavior |
| Synonyms: | Victorian*, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted, conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal, mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, precise, pretentious, priggish*, prim, prissy*, proper, puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, square, squeamish*, starchy*, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice, simpering |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | self-conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insecure with oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, anxious, artificial, awkward, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, mannered, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, stiff, stilted, uncertain, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure, discomfited, ill-at-ease, out of countenance |
| Antonyms: | assured, secure, sure, unself-conscious |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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