| Main Entry: | made-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | invented mentally |
Synonyms: |
fabricated, false, fictional, imaginary, make-believe, mythical, prepared, specious, trumped-up, unreal, untrue |
Antonyms: |
original, real, true |
| Main Entry: | ad-lib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at one's pleasure |
Synonyms: |
according to pleasure, ad libitum, as one thinks best, as one wishes, at will, extemporaneous, extempore, extemporize, extemporized, impromptu, improvise, improvised, made-up, off-the-cuff, off-the-cuff, spontaneous, unprepared, unrehearsed, without restraint |
Antonyms: |
deliberate, planned, prepared, rehearsed, written |
| 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: | extemporaneous/extemporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrehearsed, improvised |
Synonyms: |
ad hoc, ad lib, at first glance, automatic, by ear, casual, expedient, extempore, free, immediate, impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming, made-up, makeshift, off the cuff, off the top of head, offhand, on impulse, on-the-spot, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, taking for ride, thought out loud, tossed off, tossed out, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unstudied, winging it |
Antonyms: |
planned, prepared, read, rehearsed, written |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy, forged, framed, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
Antonyms: |
actual, genuine, real, valid |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
Synonyms: |
abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imagined, unreal |
Synonyms: |
acted, dream, false, fantasized, fantasy, fictional, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated |
Antonyms: |
real, true, unimagined |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
Synonyms: |
allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | unnatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not regular; artificial |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, concocted, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, fabricated, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, freaky, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up, make-believe, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, put-on, queer, staged, stiff, stilted, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unconforming, unorthodox, unusual |
Antonyms: |
acceptable, genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | ad libitum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | at one's pleasure |
Synonyms: |
according to pleasure, ad-lib, as one thinks best, as one wishes, at will, extemporaneous, freely, impromptu, improvised, impulsive, made-up, off-the-cuff, offhand, spontaneously, unrehearsed, without restraint |