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All fake synonyms

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verb fake

  • fabricate β€” to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
  • feign β€” to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
  • put on β€” a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
  • counterfeit β€” Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
  • dissimulate β€” to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
  • bluff β€” A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
  • assume β€” If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
  • disguise β€” to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
  • simulate β€” to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
  • act β€” When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
  • forge β€” to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • affect β€” If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
  • spoof β€” a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
  • copy β€” If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
  • sham β€” something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.

adjective fake

  • false β€” not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
  • bogus β€” If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
  • forged β€” to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • phony β€” not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • replica β€” a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
  • imitation β€” a result or product of imitating.
  • simulated β€” to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
  • mock β€” to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • faux β€” artificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls.
  • ersatz β€” (of a product) Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
  • pretend β€” to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
  • fabricated β€” to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
  • fictitious β€” created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
  • fraudulent β€” characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • spurious β€” not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  • affected β€” If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
  • assumed β€” false; fictitious
  • concocted β€” to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery: to concoct a meal from leftovers.
  • make-believe β€” pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
  • pretended β€” Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit: pretend diamonds.
  • pseudo β€” not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.
  • reproduction β€” the act or process of reproducing.
  • artificial β€” Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.

noun fake

  • simulation β€” imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing.
  • mock-up β€” a model, often full-size, for study, testing, or teaching: a mock-up of an experimental aircraft.
  • facsimile β€” an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
  • forgery β€” the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
  • fraud β€” deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
  • imposter β€” a tax; tribute; duty.
  • deception β€” Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
  • fabrication β€” the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
  • hoax β€” something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
  • scam β€” a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
  • trick β€” a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
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