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Synonyms for fake
feɪkfake
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Wiktionary
fake1
Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
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adulteratefake1
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
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feintfake1
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
fake1
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genuine
Princeton's WordNet
fake, sham, postichenoun
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
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impostor, shammer, imposter, fraud, pretender, postiche, faker, juke, role player, pseudo, sham, pseud, hairpiece, false hairimposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
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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, skulkerjuke, fakeadjective
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
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jook house, fraud, imposter, pseudo, faker, pretender, juke house, juke, impostor, jook, role player, shammer, pseud, sham, jook joint, postiche, juke jointbogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastardadjective
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
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phoney, simulated, imitation, faux, bastard, false, bogus, phonyfake, 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"
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bastard, put on, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, faux, false, assumed, bogus, phoney, fictitious, sham, phony, off-key, pretended, untrueforge, fake, counterfeitverb
make a copy of with the intent to deceive
"he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"
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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, spurtfudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
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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, skirttalk 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"
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misrepresent, bull, wangle, manipulate, fudge, cook, falsify, bull through, bullshit, forge, counterfeit, talk through one's hat
Editors Contribution
apocryphal
one, among several, reason for an inability to verify the authenticity of a claim, an assertion or a statement (apocryphal) could be because the said claim, assertion or statement could be untrue (fake).
the assertion that the loch ness monster is the result of a horrible accident in an ancient secret and extinct gene manipulation laboratory is fake.
Submitted by saty_s on September 24, 2019super natural
something that is unreal, fake
when percy jackson saw chiron he thought it was so super natural.
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fakenoun
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(Slang) trick, swindle, imposture, fraud, delusion, humbug, impositionfakeverb
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(Slang) cheat, swindle, humbug, defraud, manipulate, fraudulently
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fake":
false, counterfeit, forged, falsified, simulate, bogus, phony, impostor, imposter, wrong, untrue, bluff, rigged, faux, forgery, spurious, fraudulent, scythe, fictitious, forger, falsify, phoney, counterfeited, imaginary, incidental
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FAKE
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How to use fake in a sentence?
Sometimes those who don't socialize much aren't actually anti-social. They just have no tolerance for drama and fake people.
You know, it's very funny when the fake media goes out -- you know, which we call the mainstream media, which sometimes, I must say, is you.
Democrats are trying to trick Americans into another decade of cozy relations with the [ Chinese ] Communist Party. Their fake China bill does nothing to stand up to China. It’s legislative fraud.
It’s still flat and there’s no audience, so don’t try to fake it.
The professionalism of the operation surprised me. It felt like a round-the-clock operation putting out new content with fake thumbnails and headlines every few hours, when accounts were deleted or banned, they were able to spin up new accounts within hours. The tactics they used to game the YouTube algorithm were executed perfectly. They knew what they were doing.
Translations for fake
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- مزورةArabic
- ялғанBashkir
- витка, подправен, фалшифициран, подправям, навивам въже, фалшифицирам, фалшификатBulgarian
- falsejarCatalan, Valencian
- falešnýCzech
- gefälscht, Irreführung, Imitat, unecht, Schwindel, Fälschung, vortäuschen, fälschen, imitieren, simulieren, Illusion, fingieren, TrugGerman
- ψεύτικοςGreek
- falsaEsperanto
- falsificar, fingir, falsear, falso, falsificaciónSpanish
- parannella, väärennetty, teeskennellä, filmata, olla olevinaan, feikata, väärentää, tekeytyäFinnish
- contrefait, faux, feint, artificiel, fausser, falsifié, facticeFrench
- नक़लHindi
- կեղծArmenian
- palsu, gadunganIndonesian
- dugliare, dugliaItalian
- 偽物, 偽, 贋, 偽造Japanese
- ក្លែងក្លាយ, របស់ក្លែងKhmer
- ನಕಲಿKannada
- 모조품Korean
- алдамчылык, митаамдык, жасалмаKyrgyz
- fakeLatin
- palsuMalay
- nep, voorwendenDutch
- de mentira, falso, falsearPortuguese
- ненастоящий, фальшивка, прикидываться, подделать, поддельный, фальшивый, подделка, фейк, прикинуться, притворяться, подделывать, притвориться, фэйкRussian
- falsk, fejk, fejkaSwedish
- sahteTurkish
- giảVietnamese
- 伪造的Chinese
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