What's The Definition Of Fake?
[n] something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
[n] a person who makes deceitful pretenses
[adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
[adj] not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide"
[v] talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
[v] make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
[v] fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fake: artificial |
bastard |
bogus |
bull |
bullshit |
cook |
counterfeit |
counterfeit |
faker |
false |
falsify |
faux |
forge |
fraud |
fudge |
imitation |
imitative |
imposter |
impostor |
manipulate |
misrepresent |
phoney |
phony |
postiche |
pretender |
pseud |
pseudo |
role player |
sham |
sham |
shammer |
simulated |
unreal |
wangle
Related Terms | Find terms related to Fake: act |
act a part |
act like |
actor |
ad-lib |
adulterate |
affect |
affected |
affecter |
agent |
alike |
alter |
alternate |
alternative |
analogy |
aped |
apocryphal |
artificial |
assume |
assumed |
backup |
bastard |
blagueur |
bluff |
bluffer |
bogus |
borrow |
brummagem |
certified copy |
change |
changeling |
charlatan |
cheat |
chorus |
clinquant |
colorable |
colored |
comparison |
concoct |
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consimilar |
cook |
cook up |
copied |
copy |
counterfeit |
counterfeited |
cover up |
crib |
dash off |
deceiver |
deception |
deputy |
dissemble |
dissimulate |
distorted |
ditto |
do |
do a bit |
do like |
do offhand |
doctor |
double |
dramatize |
dressed up |
dummy |
echo |
ectype |
embellished |
embroidered |
equal |
equivalent |
ersatz |
exchange |
extemporize |
fabricate |
fabricated |
factitious |
fair copy |
faithful copy |
faked |
fakement |
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false |
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fantasize |
favoring |
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flam |
following |
forge |
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four-flush |
fourflusher |
framed |
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fraud |
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gammon |
garbled |
ghost |
ghostwriter |
go like |
gyp |
hatch |
histrionize |
hoax |
hoaxer |
hoke |
hoke up |
hokey |
hollow man |
homogeneous |
humbug |
hypocritical |
icon |
identical |
illegitimate |
image |
imitate |
imitated |
imitation |
impersonator |
impostor |
improvisate |
improvise |
invent |
invented |
juggle |
junk |
junky |
jury-rig |
knock off |
lash up |
let on |
let on like |
like |
likeness |
load |
locum tenens |
make a pretense |
make as if |
make believe |
make like |
make out like |
make up |
make-believe |
makeshift |
malingerer |
man of straw |
manipulate |
man-made |
mannerist |
manufacture |
metaphor |
metonymy |
mimicked |
mirror |
mock |
modify |
mountebank |
nearly reproduced |
next best thing |
not unlike |
overact |
pack |
paper tiger |
paste |
pasticcio |
pastiche |
performer |
personnel |
perverted |
phony |
picture |
pinch |
pinch hitter |
pinchbeck |
plagiarize |
plagiarized |
plant |
play |
play a part |
play a scene |
play by ear |
play possum |
playact |
playactor |
portrait |
poser |
poseur |
pretend |
pretended |
pretender |
profess |
provisional |
proxy |
pseudo |
put on |
put on airs |
put-on |
put-up job |
quack |
quacksalver |
quackster |
quasi |
queer |
reecho |
reflect |
relief |
repeat |
replacement |
representation |
representative |
resemblance |
resembling |
reserve |
reserves |
retouch |
rig |
ringer |
rip-off |
salt |
saltimbanco |
scrap the plan |
second string |
secondary |
self-styled |
sell |
semblance |
sham |
shammer |
shoddy |
sign |
similar |
similitude |
simulacrum |
simulate |
simulated |
smacking of |
snide |
so-called |
soi-disant |
something like |
sophisticate |
spares |
spoof |
spurious |
stack |
stand-in |
stopgap |
straw man |
strike off |
sub |
substituent |
substitute |
substitution |
succedaneum |
suggestive of |
superseder |
supplanter |
supposititious |
surrogate |
swindle |
symbol |
synecdoche |
synthetic |
tamper with |
temporary |
tentative |
third string |
throw off |
throw together |
tin |
tinsel |
titivated |
token |
toss off |
toss out |
trump up |
tug the heartstrings |
twisted |
unauthentic |
understudy |
ungenuine |
uniform with |
unnatural |
unreal |
utility |
utility player |
vamp |
vicar |
vicarious |
vice-president |
vice-regent |
warped |
wear |
whip up |
whited sepulcher |
whomp up |
wing it
See Also | affect |
beguiler |
cheat |
cheat |
cheater |
chisel |
cook up |
counterfeit |
deceiver |
dissemble |
fabricate |
fake book |
feign |
forgery |
imitation |
invent |
juggle |
make up |
manufacture |
namedropper |
pretend |
re-create |
ringer |
sham |
slicker |
trickster
Fake In Webster's Dictionary
\Fake\, n. [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS.
f[ae]c space, interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row,
and E. fay to fit.] (Naut.)
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it
lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
\Fake\, v. t. (Naut.)
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in
opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of
eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
{Faking box}, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in
the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.
\Fake\, v. t. [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or
OD. facken to catch or gripe.] [Slang in all its senses.]
1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
2. To make; to construct; to do.
3. To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear
better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog,
by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening
it.
\Fake\, n.
A trick; a swindle. [Slang]
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