Antonyms 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

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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. The Lancet:

   Some of the material that's been put out - on preprint servers for example - clearly has been... unhelpful, whether it's fake news or misinformation or rumour-mongering, it's certainly contributed to fear and panic.

2. Proverb World:

   Fools follow lockdown rules, wear masks, take covid jab, force others to be like them, fear virus which does not exist and spread fake things heard from the media news

3. Dan Smith:

   There is very distinctly a case for this in the age of fake news.

4. Mark Zuckerberg:

   For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring. … But it’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.

5. Jeanette Seaver:

   We find it critical to hear more than one side of a story and more importantly, not to squelch a writer's right to be heard, when speakers are shouted down or even assaulted on campuses simply for having a different point of view, journalists are banned from press conferences and truth is too often dismissed as 'fake news,' we as publishers prefer to give voice to a respected writer and filmmaker, rather than bow to the politically correct pressures of the modern world.

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