Counterfeit

//ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt//

Synonyms for "counterfeit" (356 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (72)

Strong matches (106)

come near compare compare with comparison concoct consimilar cook up copied correspond counterfeit money counterfeited cover up crib deceit deceitful deception deceptive delusion delusive delusory

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Verb(7 words)

con cozen cross out deceive fake forge get

Noun(1 words)

forgery

Adjective(1 words)

imitative

Related words (178)

impostor imposture inauthentic insincere invent junk junky kite lay it on thick let on let on like like likeness locum tenens look like make a pretense make a show of make as if make like make out like

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make up make-believe makeshift man made man-made manufacture match meretricious metaphor metonymy mimic mimicked mint mirror misleading misrepresent near nearly reproduce nearly reproduced next best thing not tell apart not unlike ostensible overact parallel partake of paste pasticcio pastiche personnel perverted phoney phony picture pinch pinch hitter pirate plagiarize plagiarized plastic play play a part play a scene play possum playact portrait presupposition pretended profess provisional proxy put on airs put up job put-on put-up job quack quasi queer reecho reflect relief remind one of repeat replacement representation representative reproduce reproduction resemblance resemble resembling reserve reserves ringer rip off rip-off rubber check savor of second string secondary seem seem like self-styled sell semblance shoddy shove the queer sign similar similitude simulacrum smack of smacking of snide so called so-called soi-disant something like sound like spare spares stack up stack up with stand in stand-in stopgap sub substituent substitute substitution succedaneum suggest suggestive of superseder supplanter supposititious surrogate swindle symbol synecdoche take after temporary tentative third string tin tinsel titivated token trump up tug the heartstrings twisted unauthentic understudy ungenuine uniform with unnatural unreal utility utility player utter vicar vicarious vice president vice-president vice-regent warped wear whited sepulcher

Verb(9 words)

jiff lead astray overreach pimp pirate sell someone a pup shaft shit slur

Adjective(1 words)

pirate

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

3 entries

imitation re-create recreate

Antonyms

1 entries

genuine

Synonyms

18 entries

copy false feign feigned forge forged forgery fraudulent hypocritical imitate make believe mock pretend put on sham simulate

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derived

11 entries

anticounterfeit anticounterfeiting counterfeitability counterfeitable counterfeitingly counterfeitly counterfeitment counterfeitness noncounterfeit uncounterfeit uncounterfeited

has context

1 entries

poker

is a

1 entries

imitation

related to

19 entries

artificial cheat counterfeiter counterpart fake false feign genuine hypocritical impostor inauthentic insincere invalidate likeness mimic portrait

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similar

37 entries

artificial assumed bad base bastard bogus fake false fictitious fictive forged inauthentic

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Translations

182 translations across 46 languages.

Afrikaans

4 entries

vals adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
vervals adj (unauthentic)
vervalsing adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
vervalsing noun (fake)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

κίβδηλος adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
πλαστός adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

qəlp adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Bashkir

2 entries

ялған adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
ялған adj (unauthentic)

Belarusian

2 entries

падро́бка noun (fake)
фальшы́ўка noun (fake)

Bulgarian

4 entries

подправен adj (unauthentic)
фалшив adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
фалшив adj (unauthentic)
фалшификация noun (fake)

Catalan

2 entries

falsificació adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
contrafer verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

假冒 adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
贗品 /赝品 noun (fake)

Cornish

4 entries

fug adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
fug adj (unauthentic)
fug noun (fake)
fugya verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Dutch

4 entries

namaak adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
nep adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
vervalst adj (unauthentic)
vervalsing noun (fake)

Esperanto

1 entries

falsigita adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Faroese

4 entries

eftirgjørdur adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falsaður adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falskur adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
óektaður adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Finnish

4 entries

jäljitelty adj (unauthentic)
väärennetty adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
väärennetty adj (unauthentic)
väärä adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

French

4 entries

contrefait adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
contrefait adj (unauthentic)
contrefaçon noun (fake)
contrefaire verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Galician

2 entries

falsificado adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falso adj (unauthentic)

Georgian

2 entries

ყალბი adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
ყალბი adj (unauthentic)

German

4 entries

Falsch adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falsch adj (unauthentic)
gefälscht adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
nachgemacht adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Greek

4 entries

κίβδηλος adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
πλαστός adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
ψεύτικος adj (unauthentic)
παραχαράσσω verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Hebrew

2 entries

מזויף adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
זִיֵּף verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Hindi

3 entries

खोटा adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
जाली adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
नक़ल noun (fake)

Hungarian

4 entries

hamis adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
hamisított adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
megjátszott adj (unauthentic)
színlelt adj (unauthentic)

Ido

2 entries

kontrafaktar adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
kontrafakturo noun (fake)

Indonesian

4 entries

palsu adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
tiruan noun (fake)
memalsukan verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)
meniru verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Italian

4 entries

contraffazione adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
contraffazione adj (unauthentic)
falso adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falso adj (unauthentic)

Japanese

2 entries

フェイク noun (fake)
偽物 noun (fake)

Kazakh

1 entries

контрафактілік adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Khmer

2 entries

ក្លែងក្លាយ adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
របស់ក្លែង noun (fake)

Malay

1 entries

tiruan adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

ساخته adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
یالان adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
یالان adj (unauthentic)
یالانجی adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Persian

1 entries

جعلی adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Polish

4 entries

podrobiony adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
sfałszowany adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falsyfikat noun (fake)
fałszywka noun (fake)

Portuguese

4 entries

falsificado adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falso adj (unauthentic)
réplica adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
contrafação noun (fake)

Russian

4 entries

контрафа́ктный adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
контрафа́ктный adj (unauthentic)
подде́льный adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
подде́льный adj (unauthentic)

Sanskrit

1 entries

प्रातिरूपिक adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Scots

1 entries

conterfait adj (unauthentic)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

lažan adj (unauthentic)
neautentičan adj (unauthentic)
лажан adj (unauthentic)
неаутентичан adj (unauthentic)

Slovene

2 entries

ponarejen adj (unauthentic)
ponaredek noun (fake)

Spanish

4 entries

aparentador adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
bamba adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
chimbo adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
contrahecho adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Swahili

4 entries

bandia adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
bandia adj (unauthentic)
bandia noun (fake)
bandia verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Swedish

4 entries

falsk adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
falsk adj (unauthentic)
förfalskad adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
förfalskning noun (fake)

Tagalog

1 entries

huwad noun (fake)

Thai

4 entries

จอมปลอม adj (unauthentic)
ปลอม adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
เก๊ adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
ของปลอม noun (fake)

Turkish

1 entries

sahte adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Ukrainian

2 entries

підро́бка noun (fake)
фальши́вка noun (fake)

Urdu

4 entries

جعلی adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
جعلی noun (fake)
جعل سازی verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)
جعلسازی verb (To produce something that appears to be official or valid)

Vietnamese

2 entries

giả adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)
giả mạo adj (intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

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The counterfeit bills flooded the market over the weekend.

Source: tatoeba (266430)

The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

Source: tatoeba (718721)

Those people are true experts in the counterfeit of illegal things.

Source: tatoeba (946092)

Tom bought a counterfeit watch.

Source: tatoeba (1797187)

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