All fake synonyms
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F f 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.