Entry Word: authentic

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 being exactly as appears or as claimed <found an authentic Native American arrowhead>

Synonyms bona fide, genuine, real, right, true

Related Words actual, historical, original; lawful, legal, legitimate; identifiable, recognizable, verifiable; proven, substantiated, validated, verified; incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, undeniable, undoubted, unmistakable, unquestionable; veritable, very; accurate, correct, proper; pure, unadulterated, unalloyed

Near Antonyms artificial, factitious, imitation, man-made, simulated, synthetic, unnatural; concocted, fabricated, manufactured; deceptive, delusive, delusory, misleading; unauthenticated, unverified

Antonyms bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, mock, phony (also phoney), pseudo, sham, spurious, unauthentic, unreal

2 following an original exactly <an authentic reconstruction of the Parthenon as it is believed to have looked when first built> — see faithful 2