Bogus

//ˈboʊ.ɡəs//

Synonyms for "bogus" (104 found)

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Closest matches (21)

affected apocryphal artificial assumed bastard brummagem colorable colored counterfeit counterfeited deceptive distorted dressed up dummy embellished

Adjective(5 words)

artificial bad bollocks concocted counterfeit

Adjective(1 words)

bastard

Strong matches (31)

embroidered ersatz factitious fake faked false falsified feigned fictitious fictive forged fraudulent garbled glossy illegitimate imitation junky make believe

Adjective(12 words)

ersatz fabricated fake false falsified faux feigned forged fraudulent illegal illegitimate ingenuine

Adjective(1 words)

fake

Related words (52)

make-believe man made man-made mock perverted phoney phony pinchbeck plastic pretended pseudo put on put-on quasi queer self-styled sham shoddy simulated snide

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so called so-called soi-disant sophistic spurious supposititious synthetic tin tinsel titivated twisted unauthentic ungenuine unnatural unreal warped

Adjective(14 words)

mock phoney phony phony as a three-dollar bill phony-baloney pseudo put-up said to be sham spurious synthetic trumped-up unauthentic unreal

Adjective(2 words)

phoney phony

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Synonyms

1 entries

phoney

Related terms

1 entries

calibogus

derived

8 entries

Bogus Ordo bogon bogosity bogotic bogotify bogus-maker bogusly bogusness

has context

5 entries

computing dialect philately slang us

related to

17 entries

assumption broken calibogus counterfeit fake false fictitious forgery genuine incorrect information issue liquor misleading molasses rum

Showing 16 of 17 words.

similar

2 entries

counterfeit imitative

Translations

88 translations across 20 languages.

Arabic

3 entries

زَائِف adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
كَاذِب adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
مُزَوَّر adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Bulgarian

3 entries

лъжлив adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
фалшив adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
фиктивен adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

假 adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
偽 /伪 adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
虛偽 /虚伪 adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Czech

3 entries

falešný adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falšovaný adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
nepravý adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Dutch

1 entries

vervalst adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Finnish

4 entries

tekaistu adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
teko adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
vale adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
väärennetty adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

French

4 entries

bidon adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
fichu adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
foireux adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
foutu adj (incorrect; useless; broken)

German

4 entries

Schein adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falsch adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falsch adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
gefälscht adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Icelandic

3 entries

falskur adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
svikinn adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
óekta adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Indonesian

1 entries

gadungan adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Italian

4 entries

brutto adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
falsificato adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
fritto adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
taroccato adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Japanese

3 entries

いんちきの adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
偽の adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
虚偽 adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Māori

3 entries

parau adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
tahupera adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
tipatipa adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Occitan

4 entries

copat adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
fals adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falsificat adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
fotut adj (incorrect; useless; broken)

Polish

2 entries

fałszywy adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
zmyślony adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Portuguese

3 entries

adulterado adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falsificado adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falso adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Russian

4 entries

корявый adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
ло́жный adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
подде́льный adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
фальши́вый adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Spanish

4 entries

averiado adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
bamba adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
barato adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
disfrazarse de adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Swedish

4 entries

blask adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
dravel adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
dynga adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
falsk adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Turkish

3 entries

sahte adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)
yanlış adj (incorrect; useless; broken)
yapmacık adj (counterfeit or fake; not genuine)

Sample sentences

24 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It's bogus.

Source: tatoeba (684034)

This is completely bogus.

Source: tatoeba (4496777)

Sami opened a bank account with a bogus Egyptian ID.

Source: tatoeba (6139943)

Totally bogus.

Source: tatoeba (6583853)

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