Synonyms: imitative, counterfeit
Definition: not genuine; imitating something superior
Usage: counterfeit emotion; counterfeit money; counterfeit works of art; a counterfeit prince
Similar words: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, sham, put on, pretended
Definition: adopted in order to deceive
Usage: an assumed name; an assumed cheerfulness; a fictitious address; fictive sympathy; a pretended interest; a put-on childish voice; sham modesty
Definition: reproduced fraudulently
Usage: like a bad penny...; a forged twenty dollar bill
Similar words: base
Definition: debased; not genuine
Usage: an attempt to eliminate the base coinage
Similar words: bastard, fake, phoney, phony, bogus
Definition: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Similar words: unauthentic, inauthentic, spurious
Definition: intended to deceive
Usage: a spurious work of art
Similar words: mock
Definition: constituting a copy or imitation of something
Usage: boys in mock battle
Similar words: ostensible, ostensive
Definition: represented or appearing as such; pretended
Usage: His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity
Similar words: pinchbeck
Definition: serving as an imitation or substitute
Usage: pinchbeck heroism
Similar words: pseudo
Definition: (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of
Usage: a pseudo esthete; pseudoclassic
Similar words: synthetic
Definition: not genuine or natural
Usage: counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will
Synonyms: imitative
Definition: marked by or given to imitation
Usage: acting is an imitative art; man is an imitative being
Definition: being or given to servile imitation
Similar words: mimetic
Definition: exhibiting mimicry
Usage: mimetic coloring of a butterfly; the mimetic tendency of infancy- R.W.Hamilton
Similar words: mimic
Definition: constituting an imitation
Usage: the mimic warfare of the opera stage- Archibald Alison
Similar words: parrotlike
Definition: mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding
Usage: a mere parrotlike word-calling process; a voice quality sounding parrotlike
Similar words: simulated
Definition: reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character
Usage: under simulated combat conditions