Thesaurus:fake
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: not real; false, fraudulent
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- artificial
- bad [⇒ thesaurus]
- bogus
- bollocks
- concocted
- counterfeit
- ersatz
- fabricated
- false [⇒ thesaurus]
- falsified
- fake
- faux
- feigned
- forged
- fraudulent
- illegitimate [⇒ thesaurus]
- ingenuine
- mock [⇒ thesaurus]
- phoney
- phony-baloney
- phony
- phony as a three-dollar bill
- pseudo
- put-up
- said to be
- sham
- spurious
- synthetic
- unauthentic
- unreal
- trumped-up
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- cry wolf
- false [⇒ thesaurus]
- mock [⇒ thesaurus]
- pretext [⇒ thesaurus]
- Thesaurus:decoy
- Thesaurus:imitate
- Thesaurus:lie
Further reading
[edit]- “fake” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “fake” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.