Synonyms for fake
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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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 6 votes

1. fake, sham, postichenoun

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

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

   Antonyms:
   echt, natural, genuine

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

   a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   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

   Antonyms:
   genuine, natural, echt

3. juke, fakeadjective

   (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

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

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

4. bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastardadjective

   fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

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

   Antonyms:
   natural, echt, genuine

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   natural, echt, genuine

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

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

   tamper, with the purpose of deception

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   echt, genuine, natural

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   genuine, echt, natural

Matched Categories

1. • Cheat
   • Re-create

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1. 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, 2019  

2. super natural

   something that is unreal, fake

   when percy jackson saw chiron he thought it was so super natural.

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. 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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1. Jay Sekulow:

   This was a fake, false investigation from the outset.

2. Jean Giraudoux:

   The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

3. Mark Hertling:

   We're distracting from the main issue, what the issue was is the President calling journalists' fake news.' That was the beginning of the question, and suddenly, he diverted to Bill McCraven, and now everyone is talking about insults on Bill McCraven as opposed to freedom of the press.

4. Mo Brooks:

   If you're talking about mainstream fake news media at the national level, of course, they want a socialist. And I'm definitely not a socialist, they consider me very much a foe of their political ideology. Likewise, I consider them very much a foe of conservative principles that made us America. So we're at odds.

5. Andrew Pollack:

   If you turn this channel [CNN] all they’re talking about is gun control, it’s this fake news here that’s in my mouth here. All they want to do is ratings, gun control.