All faux synonyms
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F f adj faux
- fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- imitative — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- imitation — a result or product of imitating.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- unreal — not real or actual.
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- factitious — not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- synthetic — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- unnatural — contrary to the laws or course of nature.
- affected — 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.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- feigned — pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
adjective faux
- artificial — Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- ersatz — (of a product) Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.