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| Main Entry: | simulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat, concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor, feature, feign, fence, invent, knock off*, lie, lift, make believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, pose, prevaricate, put on*, put on an act*, reproduce, resemble, steal, act like, do a take-off, do like, gloss over, playact, replicate |
| Antonyms: | be real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
| Synonyms: | be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up*, ham*, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge*, strut*, take part, tread the boards* |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act, adopt, assume, bluff, contrive, counterfeit, fake, feign, put on, sham*, simulate, take on, aspire to, do a bit, lay it on thick, make out like, playact, put up a front |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, adopt, affect, bluff, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate, impersonate, mimic, pretend, put on, simulate |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake*, feign, fool, humbug*, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on*, sham*, shuck*, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive*, psych out |
| Antonyms: | come clean, reveal, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt from another source; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp |
| Antonyms: | give, return |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off*, limn, manifold, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, picture, plagiarize, portray, reflect, repeat, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, trace, transcribe, mimeo, photostat, reduplicate, replicate, stat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate |
| Synonyms: | ape, burlesque, do, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, fake, follow, follow suit, illustrate, incarnate, knock off*, mimic, mirror, mock, model, parody, parrot, personify, phony, pirate, prefigure, repeat, sham, simulate, steal, take off*, travesty, typify, act like, do a take-off, do like, follow example, go like, make like, play a role, take leaf out of book |
| Antonyms: | be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off*, mimic, mint, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, pretend |
| Synonyms: | affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, dissimulate, double-talk*, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, hide, let on*, mask, pass, play possum*, pussyfoot*, put on an act*, sham*, shroud, signify, simulate, stonewall*, whitewash*, cover up, doublespeak, four-flush, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, shuck and jive |
| Antonyms: | admit, allow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look like |
| Synonyms: | feature, resemble, simulate, take after*, be the image of, be the picture of |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, fake, forge, imagine, imitate, invent, play, play possum*, put on, sham*, simulate, stonewall*, do a bit, four-flush, give appearance of, make show of, phony up, put on act, put up a front |
| Antonyms: | be true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affect, ape, assume, borrow, burlesque, carbon*, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow suit*, forge, impersonate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, parody, pretend, put on*, reflect, repeat, reproduce, resemble, sham, simulate, spoof, take off*, travesty, act like, be like, do like, do likewise, follow in footsteps, look like, model after, pattern after, personate, play a part, reduplicate, replicate, send up* |
| Antonyms: | clash, differ, oppose, reverse, be original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fabricate |
| Synonyms: | concoct, conjure up, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, vamp, create out of thin air, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | make believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a show of |
| Synonyms: | bluff, counterfeit, dream, enact, fake, fantasize, feign, fool, imagine, play, pretend, pretend, simulate, act as if, act as though, let on like, make as if, play the part, play-act, playact |
| Antonyms: | live reality |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, mock |
| Synonyms: | act, ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, copycat, ditto*, do, echo, enact, fake, impersonate, make believe, make fun of, mime, mirror, parody, parrot, perform, play, resemble, ridicule, sham, simulate, take off*, travesty, do like, go like, look like, make like, pantomime, personate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirror |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy, reflect |
| Synonyms: | depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off*, typify, act like, make like |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mimic |
| Synonyms: | affect, ape, assume, burlesque, caricature, counterfeit, ditto*, do, fake, feign, imitate, lampoon, mime, mirror, parody, satirize, simulate, take off*, travesty, hoke, send up* |
| Antonyms: | exalt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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