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fake

noun

1 one of the sculptures was found to be a fake:

forgery, counterfeit, copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction, lookalike, likeness;

informal phoney, pirate, knock-off, rip-off, dupe.

2 that doctor is a fake:

charlatan, quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, humbug, impostor, pretender, masquerader, hoodwinker, hoaxer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, dissembler, trickster, confidence trickster, fraudster;

informal phoney, con man, con artist;

dated confidence man.

adjective

1 he gave his wife fake banknotes:

counterfeit, forged, fraudulent, sham, imitation, false, bogus, spurious, pseudo;

worthless, invalid;

informal phoney, dud.

▷antonyms genuine.

2 they adorn themselves with fake diamonds:

imitation, artificial, synthetic, simulated, reproduction, replica, ersatz, plastic, man-made, dummy, false, mock, sham, bogus, so-called;

informal pretend, phoney, fakey, pseudo.

▷antonyms genuine.

3 she adopted a fake accent:

feigned, faked, put-on, assumed, improvised, invented, affected, pseudo, insincere, unconvincing, artificial, imitation, mock, sham;

informal phoney, fakey, pseud, pretend;

British, informal cod.

▷antonyms authentic.

verb

1 her death certificate was faked:

forge, counterfeit, falsify, sham, feign, mock up, copy, reproduce, replicate;

doctor, alter, tamper with, tinker with;

informal pirate;

British, informal fiddle (with).

2 he faked a yawn:

feign, pretend, simulate, sham, put on, make-believe, affect;

give the appearance of, make a show of, make a pretence of, go through the motions of.

fake (1) Oxford Dictionary of English