FAKE Synonyms

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• not genuine; imitating something superior

• a copy that is represented as the original

• make a copy of with the intent to deceive

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations

• something copied or derived from an original

• copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else

• a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of

• contrived by art rather than nature

• artificially formal

• not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

• involving deception

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• formed or conceived by the imagination

• not genuine

• reproduced fraudulently

• involving deception

• lacking sincerity

• the act of mocking or ridiculing

• constituting a copy or imitation of something

• treat with contempt

• imitate with mockery and derision

• making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• ostensibly valid, but not actually valid

• plausible but false

• born out of wedlock

• false or fake; not what it appears to be

• lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria

• not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary

• contrived by art rather than nature

• lacking material form or substance; unreal

• mixed with impurities

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones