Synonyms of the word

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

artificial

• adj. Man-made; of artifice.
• adj. False, misleading.
• adj. Unnatural.

bastard

• n. A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
• n. A mongrel. A biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.
• n. (vulgar, referring to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person…
• n. (often humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
• n. (often preceded by 'poor') A person deserving of pity.
• n. (informal) A child who does not know his or her father.
• n. (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
• n. A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
• n. An intermediate-grade file; also bastard file.
• n. A sweet wine.
• n. A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
• n. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
• n. A large mould for straining sugar.
• n. A writing paper of a particular size.
• n. (Britain, politics, pejorative) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
• adj. of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
• adj. of or like a bastard (bad person).
• adj. of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
• adj. of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc.).
• adj. spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
• adj. (Britain, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
• adj. (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
• adj. (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color;…
• interj. (rare, vulgar) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
• v. (obsolete) To bastardize.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

bogus

• adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
• adj. Undesirable or harmful.
• adj. (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
• adj. (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
• n. (US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

bull

• n. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
• n. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
• n. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants and seals.
• n. A large, strong man.
• n. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
• n. (slang) A policeman.
• n. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
• n. (Britain) Clipping of bullseye.
• n. (Philadelphia, slang) A man.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
• adj. Large and strong, like a bull.
• adj. (of large mammals) adult male.
• adj. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
• adj. stupid.
• v. (intransitive) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
• v. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
• v. (intransitive) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
• v. (Britain, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
• n. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
• n. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
• v. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull.
• n. A lie.
• n. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
• v. to mock, cheat.
• n. (16th century, obsolete) a bubble.

bullshit

• n. (literally) The faeces of a bull.
• n. (vulgar, slang) False or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform;…
• n. (vulgar, slang) A card game in which the object is to bluff about cards laid down and to determine when…
• n. (vulgar, slang) An object of frustration and/or disgust, often caused by a perceived deception.
• adj. (vulgar, slang) Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical. Most often said of speech, information, or content.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To come up with on the spot, to improvise poorly.
• interj. (vulgar, slang) An expression of disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

cook

• n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
• n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
• n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
• v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
• v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
• v. To concoct or prepare.
• v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
• v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

counterfeit

• adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• adj. Inauthentic.
• adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
• n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
• n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
• n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
• n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
• v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

dissemble

• v. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
• v. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

faker

• n. One who fakes something.
• n. An impostor or impersonator.
• n. (obsolete) A thief.
• n. (obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
• n. (obsolete) A workman who dresses things up.

false

• adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
• adj. Spurious, artificial.
• adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
• adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
• adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
• adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
• adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
• adj. (music) Out of tune.
• adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
• n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

falsify

• v. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
• v. (transitive) To misrepresent.
• v. (transitive) To prove to be false.
• v. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
• v. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

faux

• adj. Fake or artificial.

feign

• v. To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
• v. To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
• v. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
• v. To hide or conceal.

feint

• v. To make a feint, or mock attack.
• adj. (obsolete) Feigned; counterfeit.
• adj. (fencing, boxing, war) (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
• n. A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy.
• n. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem.
• n. (fencing, boxing, war) An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance.
• n. The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT).

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

forgery

• n. The act of forging metal into shape.
• n. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or…
• n. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
• n. (archaic) An invention, creation.

fraud

• n. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• n. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
• n. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• n. A person who performs any such trick.
• n. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
• v. (obsolete) To defraud.

fudge

• n. (chiefly uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
• n. (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with…
• n. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
• n. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
• n. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the…
• v. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
• v. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily…
• interj. (minced oath) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.

imitation

• n. The act of imitating.
• n. A copy.
• n. (attributive) not the real thing.

imitative

• adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
• adj. Modelled after another thing.

imposter

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.

impostor

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

juke

• n. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
• v. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
• v. (slang) to hit.
• v. (prison slang) to stab.
• v. To deceive or outmaneuver (someone) using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
• v. To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
• n. A feint.
• n. The neck of a bird.

manipulate

• v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
• v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
• v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

misrepresent

• v. To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.

phoney

• adj. Alternative form of phony, chiefly British.
• n. Alternative form of phony.

phony

• adj. Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
• n. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
• n. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.

postiche

• n. Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

pretender

• n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
• n. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.

pseud

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

pseudo

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
• n. A poseur; one who is fake.
• n. (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code.
• n. (Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
• n. Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
• adj. Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham.
• adj. Insincere.

re-create

• v. (transitive) To create again.
• v. (transitive) To create a likeness or copy of.

sham

• adj. Intended to deceive; false.
• adj. counterfeit; unreal.
• n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
• n. Trickery, hoaxing.
• n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
• n. A decorative cover for a pillow.
• v. To deceive, cheat, lie.
• v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
• v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

shammer

• n. A person who shams; a liar.

simulated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of simulate.
• adj. made to imitate something else; artificial.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).

unreal

• adj. fake; not real.
• adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.

wangle

• v. (transitive) To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.
• v. (transitive) To falsify, as records.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
• n. The act of wangling.