Antonyms for fake
feɪkfake

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fake1

   Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.

   Synonyms:
   adulterate

2. fake1

   To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

   Synonyms:
   feint

3. fake1

   To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

   Synonyms:
   pose, pass off

4. fake1

   Antonyms:
   genuine

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1. • Cheat
   • Re-create

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 6 votes

1. fake, sham, postichenoun

   something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

   Antonyms:
   echt, natural, genuine

   Synonyms:
   impostor, shammer, imposter, fraud, pretender, postiche, faker, juke, role player, pseudo, sham, pseud, hairpiece, false hair

2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun

   a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   Antonyms:
   genuine, natural, echt

   Synonyms:
   histrion, fraud, imposter, pseudo, dissimulator, faker, player, pretender, fraudulence, juke, role player, hoax, dissembler, put-on, humbug, shammer, actor, pseud, hypocrite, phoney, sham, phony, postiche, impostor, dupery, malingerer, thespian, skulker

3. juke, fakeadjective

   (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

   Synonyms:
   jook house, fraud, imposter, pseudo, faker, pretender, juke house, juke, impostor, jook, role player, shammer, pseud, sham, jook joint, postiche, juke joint

4. bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastardadjective

   fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

   Antonyms:
   natural, echt, genuine

   Synonyms:
   phoney, simulated, imitation, faux, bastard, false, bogus, phony

5. fake, false, faux, imitation, simulatedverb

   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 alligator hide"

   Antonyms:
   natural, echt, genuine

   Synonyms:
   bastard, put on, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, faux, false, assumed, bogus, phoney, fictitious, sham, phony, off-key, pretended, untrue

6. forge, fake, counterfeitverb

   make a copy of with the intent to deceive

   "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

   Synonyms:
   misrepresent, form, fudge, mould, wangle, spirt, excogitate, manipulate, work, shape, devise, counterfeit, mold, cook, falsify, talk through one's hat, invent, contrive, bullshit, forge, fashion, bull, formulate, hammer, spurt

7. fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb

   tamper, with the purpose of deception

   "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

   Synonyms:
   warp, belie, circumvent, evade, ready, prepare, sidestep, cook, pull wires, fix, forge, manage, make, parry, dodge, finagle, duck, alter, control, hedge, bullshit, put off, manipulate, bull, talk through one's hat, falsify, distort, garble, counterfeit, pull strings, elude, interpolate, wangle, keep in line, fudge, misrepresent, rig, skirt

8. talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fakeverb

   speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths

   "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt, natural

   Synonyms:
   misrepresent, bull, wangle, manipulate, fudge, cook, falsify, bull through, bullshit, forge, counterfeit, talk through one's hat

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. fakenoun

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) trick, swindle, imposture, fraud, delusion, humbug, imposition

2. fakeverb

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) cheat, swindle, humbug, defraud, manipulate, fraudulently

How to use fake in a sentence?

1. Simon Cowell:

   When you want to sing this kind of music, you can’t fake it, it’s either in you or it’s not. You are an old soul. And I am guessing right now, your grandmother is looking down on you.

2. Steven Levy:

   In 2015, some people tried really actively to get them to take down the( anti-vaccination) stuff and it did not resonate with them, they weren't dealing at all with the concept of what we now call' fake news.' But now they're much more sensitive.

3. Letitia James:

   Bots and other fake accounts have been running rampant on social media platforms, often stealing real people's identities to carry out fraud, we are sending a clear message that anyone profiting off of deception and impersonation is breaking the law and will be held accountable.

4. President Trump:

   The Wall Street Journal state falsely that I said to them ‘ I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un ’( of N. Korea). Obviously I did n’t say that. I said ‘ I ’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, ’ Kim Jong Un, fortunately we now record conversations with reporters and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS !

5. Mike Pompeo:

   It's not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation the world has ever known. I'm not saying ignore our faults. Acknowledge them, but this isn't the' Vice of America,' focusing on everything that's wrong with our great nation. It certainly isn't the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform.

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