Synonyms for fake
feɪk

Princeton's WordNet(2.33 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. fake, sham, postiche(noun)

   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 player(noun)

   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, fake(adj)

   (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, bastard(adj)

   fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

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

   Antonyms:
   natural, echt, genuine

5. fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated(verb)

   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, counterfeit(verb)

   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, misrepresent(verb)

   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, fake(verb)

   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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. fake(1)

   To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

   Synonyms:
   adulterate

2. fake(1)

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

   Synonyms:
   feint

3. fake(1)

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

   Synonyms:
   pose, pass off

4. fake(1)

   Antonyms:
   genuine

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. fake(n)

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

2. fake(v)

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   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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How to use fake in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   It was corrupt reporting, i don't even use' fake' anymore, I call the fake news corrupt news because' fake' isn't tough enough.

2. 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.

3. Stephen Powis:

   The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it's nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news, the reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us.

4. Ehsan Sehgal:

   To face evil is not a problematic way; however, recognizing it whenever one lives and breathes, amongst the fake angels, becomes the intricate and radical context of reality.

5. Donald Trump:

   John McCain received a fake and phony dossier ... He got it, and what did he do? He didn't call me, he turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy and that's not the nicest thing to do.

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