| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, imitation |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, concocted, counterfeit, fabricated, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, invented, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | bastard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegitimate |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, baseborn, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine |
Antonyms: |
legitimate |
| Main Entry: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, not what it is cracked up to be, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | contrived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous |
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily |
| Notes: | deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone |
Antonyms: |
forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | disguised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrecognizable |
Synonyms: |
camouflaged, changed, cloaked, covered, covert, fake, false, feigned, hidden, incog, masked, pretend, undercover |
Antonyms: |
bare, open, recognizable, revealed, uncovered, unmasked |
| Main Entry: | ersatz |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial |
Synonyms: |
bogus, copied, counterfeit, fake, false, imitation, manufactured, phony, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious, substitute, synthetic |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, made up |
Synonyms: |
apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful |
Antonyms: |
accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid |
| Main Entry: | feigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, fake, faked, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*, simulated, spurious |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real, sincere |