PHONY meaning: Fake, not genuine or authentic

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word phony:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

phony: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
-phony, phony: Merriam-Webster
phony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
phony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-phony, phony: Collins English Dictionary
phony: Vocabulary.com
Phony, phony: Wordnik
phony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
-phony, phony: Wiktionary
-phony, phony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
-phony, phony (phoney): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
phony: Infoplease Dictionary
-phony, phony: Dictionary.com
phony (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
phony: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
phony: Rhymezone
phony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
-phony, phony: MyWord.info
phony: FreeDictionary.org
phony: Mnemonic Dictionary
Phony: The Word Detective
phon(e)y, phony: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

-phony: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

phony: Legal dictionary
phony: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

phony: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

-phony, phony: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

phony: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

phony: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See phoneyed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
▸ noun:  (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
▸ noun:  (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
▸ noun:  (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
▸ verb:  (informal) To fake.