counterfeit

counterfeit
adj
1. forged, fraudulent, imitation, fake, Inf. phony; not genuine, bogus, spurious, supposititious, bastardly, Australian. bunyip.
2. pretended, feigned, simulated, make-believe, sham, flash; unreal, false, insincere, mock, ersatz, synthetic; artificial, factitious, contrived, fictitious; assumed, put-on, pseudo; specious, meretricious, theatrical.
n
3. imitation, reproduction, forgery, fake, Inf. phony, sham; falsification, fraud; Jewelry. paste; Masonry. scagliola; (of literary works) plagiarism.
4. pretense, deception, feigning, make-believe.
v
5. forge, Brit. Inf. coin; (all fraudulently) imitate, copy, plagiarize, falsify, reproduce.
6. resemble, mirror, look like, favor; duplicate, replicate, match, echo.
7. simulate, assume, take on, affect, ape, mimic.
8. feign, dissemble, pretend, fake, act, put on, sham, malinger.

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