Counterfeit Synonyms and Antonyms

kountər-fĭt
Not genuine
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sham
  2. forged
  3. bogus
  4. imitative
  5. spurious
Antonyms:
  1. genuine
  2. real
  3. true
To defraud by making copies of money, stamps, etc.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. forge
  2. falsify
  3. fake
  4. print money
  5. copy money
  6. copy stamps
  7. make counterfeit money
  8. coin
  9. circulate bad money
Antonyms:
  1. be honest
To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. act
  2. dissemble
  3. fake
  4. feign
  5. play-act
  6. pose
  7. pretend
  8. put-on
  9. sham
  10. simulate
Pretended
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. false
  2. affected
  3. fake
  4. artificial
  5. fraudulent
  6. pretended
  7. sham
  8. spurious
  9. suppositious
  10. assumed
  11. bogus
  12. apocryphal
  13. pretentious
  14. delusive
  15. ersatz
  16. phony
  17. factitious
  18. feigned
  19. fictitious
  20. imitative
  21. inauthentic
  22. put-on
  23. mock
  24. pseudo
  25. supposititious
  26. simulated
  27. synthetic
  28. uncanonical
To pretend
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. simulate
  2. fake
  3. feign
  4. pretend
  5. delude
A fraudulent imitation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. forgery
  2. fake
  3. imitation
  4. phony
  5. sham
  6. hokey
Antonyms:
  1. real thing
  2. reality

Words Related to Counterfeit

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Counterfeit Sentence Examples

  • This instrument was devised for the purpose of detecting counterfeit coin, especially guineas and half-guineas.

  • Queen Edith's crown was found to be only of silver-gilt, with counterfeit pearls, sapphires and other stones, FIG.

  • This detail is often missed on a pair of counterfeit jeans.

  • If it is a counterfeit, you never know what you are really buying.

  • Though birds make a not unimportant appearance in the earliest written records of the human race, the painter's brush has preserved their counterfeit presentment for a still longer period.

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