made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged

counterfeit dollar bills.

pretended; unreal

counterfeit grief.

an imitation intended to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; forgery.

Archaic . a copy.

Archaic . a close likeness; portrait.

Obsolete . impostor; pretender.

to make a counterfeit of; imitate fraudulently; forge.

to resemble.

to simulate.

to make counterfeits, as of money.

to feign; dissemble.

adjective

genuine , real , true

noun

reality , real thing

verb

be honest

adjective

affected , assumed , bent , bogus * , brummagem , copied , crock , deceptive , delusive , delusory , ersatz , faked , false , feigned , fictitious , fishy * , forged , framed , fraudulent , hollywood , imitation , misleading , mock , not genuine , not kosher , phony * , pirate , plant * , pretended , pretentious , pseudo , put-on , queer , sham , snide , soft shell , spurious , suppositious , two-faced * , won’t fly , wrong , bogus , fake , phony , supposititious , apocryphal , artificial , factitious , imitative , inauthentic , simulated , synthetic , uncanonical

noun

actor , bogus * , bum , copy , deceit , deception , dummy , facsimile , fraud , gyp , hoax , humbug , imitation , imposture , junque , phony , pseudo , put-on , reproduction , sell * , sham , simulacrum , fake , forgery

verb

act like , affect , ape , assume , bluff , carbon , cheat , circulate bad money , clone , coin , copy , defraud , delude , ditto , do , do like , dupe , fabricate , fake , feign , forge , go like , imitate , impersonate , knock off * , make like , make money , mimeo , mimic , mint , phony * , phony up , pretend , put on * , sham , simulate , stat , xerox * , falsify , put on , dissemble , play-act , pose , artificial , bogus , brummagem , deception , disguised , dummy , false , feigned , fictitious , forged , forgery , fraud , fraudulent , fudge , mock , phony , pseudo , reproduction , spurious