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bogus

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of bogus

1 being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials

  • for that price, youʼre only going to get furniture covered in bogus leather and not the real stuff
Synonyms of bogus

artificial, dummy, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic
Words Related to bogus

cultured, manufactured, process

unauthentic

adulterated, designer, doctored, engineered, fudged, juggled, manipulated, tampered (with)

concocted, fabricated

counterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading, phony (also phoney)

affected, brummagem, feigned, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious
Near Antonyms of bogus

authentic, bona fide, legitimate, true

premium, quality, valuable

pure, unadulterated
Antonyms of bogus

genuine, natural, real

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

  • the "designer" watches sold on the street are usually bogus
Synonyms of bogus

counterfeit, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, spurious, unauthentic
Words Related to bogus

artificial, factitious, imitation, man-made, mimic, mock, simulated, substitute, synthetic

dummy, nonfunctioning, ornamental

cultured, fabricated, manufactured

deceptive, delusive, misleading
Near Antonyms of bogus

natural

actual, true, valid
Antonyms of bogus

authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, unfaked

3 lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

  • there was often a lot of bogus conviviality at the companyʼs parties
Synonyms of bogus

affected, artificial, assumed, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
Words Related to bogus

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
Near Antonyms of bogus

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending

easy, effortless, smooth

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
Antonyms of bogus

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced

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