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fake
Synonyms and Antonyms of fake
- The dress was adorned with fake pearls.
- arrested for peddling "designer" watches that were fake
bogus, counterfeit, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), sham, spurious, unauthentic
- The boss's pitiful attempts at humor were met with fake laughter.
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
- the fake friendliness of the sales rep
artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-dealing, double-faced, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, phony (also phoney), pretended, two-faced, unctuous
fake
Synonyms and Antonyms of fake
- Experts declared that one of the museum's prized paintings was actually a fake.
- A hidden-camera investigation revealed that the so-called psychic was a fake.
ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
Synonym Discussion of fake
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- their claim of environmental concern is an imposture
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- the diary was exposed as a fraud
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- condemned the election as a sham
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- these jewels are fakes; the real ones are in the vault
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- creating publicity by foisting humbugs on a gullible public
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- 20-dollar bills that were counterfeits
fake
Synonyms and Antonyms of fake
- Pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot.
- While running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes.
make believe
- If you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech.
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