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Synonyms for counterfeit

verb

  1. To defraud by making copies of money, stamps, etc.

    forge, print money, copy money, copy stamps, make counterfeit money, falsify, coin, circulate bad money; see also forge 1, mint 1.

  2. To pretend

    simulate, feign, fake, delude; see pretend 1, simulate.

modified

  1. Not genuine

    sham, forged, bogus, spurious; see artificial 1, false 3.

  2. Pretended

    assumed, pretentious, put-on; see affected 2, pretended. See syn. study at artificial, false.

See counterfeit in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb
  1. To make a fraudulent copy of:

    fake, falsify, forge1. See true
  2. To take on or give a false appearance of:

    affect2, assume, fake, feign, pretend, put on, sham, simulate. Idiom: make believe. See true
  3. To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of:

    act, dissemble, fake, feign, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate. See honest, true
  4. To contrive and present as genuine:

    fake, feign, pretend, simulate. Idioms: make believe, put on an act. See true
adjective

Fraudulently or deceptively imitative:

bogus, fake, false, fraudulent, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious. See true
noun

A fraudulent imitation:

fake, forgery, phony, sham. See true

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