Synonyms of spurious

spurious

adjective

1

as in counterfeit

being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud

a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second

Synonyms & Similar Words

• counterfeit
• false
• fake
• forged
• bogus
• inauthentic
• imitation
• snide
• phoney
• ornamental
• phony
• artificial
• sham
• synthetic
• unauthentic
• manufactured
• misleading
• deceptive
• factitious
• mock
• queer
• simulated
• dummy
• cultured
• substitute
• mimic
• delusive
• fabricated
• nonfunctioning
• man-made

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• genuine
• authentic
• bona fide
• natural
• actual
• true
• unfaked
• valid

2

as in false

lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• false
• unnatural
• mock
• strained
• fake
• exaggerated
• mechanical
• artificial
• affected
• pseudo
• simulated
• bogus
• factitious
• assumed
• contrived
• forced
• theatrical
• phony
• feigned
• plastic
• theatric
• phoney
• sham
• pretended
• cute
• unreal
• hollow
• empty
• put-on
• automatic
• calculated
• deliberate
• unrealistic
• formal
• manufactured
• hypocritical
• unauthentic
• pat
• insincere
• concocted
• canned
• melodramatic
• fabricated
• stiff
• facile
• conventional
• unctuous
• hokey
• labored
• conscious
• histrionic
• wooden
• rigid
• cultivated
• stylized
• impersonal
• mealy
• mincing
• cutesy
• artful
• two-faced
• premeditated
• simpering
• double-dealing
• genteel
• mealymouthed
• inflexible
• overacted
• studied
• overdone
• goody-goody
• left-handed
• overrefined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• genuine
• spontaneous
• real
• natural
• true
• unaffected
• realistic
• authentic
• artless
• right
• bona fide
• ingenuous
• sincere
• honest
• unforced
• unfeigned
• easy
• uncontrived
• smooth
• unconscious
• effortless
• impulsive
• impromptu
• instinctive
• extemporaneous
• unpretending
• unstudied
• unrehearsed
• unprompted

3

as in illegitimate

born to a father and mother who are not married

the spurious son of Charles II, the Duke of Monmouth would later mount a rebellion in a disastrous attempt to claim the throne

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illegitimate
• supposititious
• misbegotten
• unfathered
• natural
• baseborn
• fatherless
• motherless
• adopted
• orphaned
• nameless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• legitimate

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