n
Archaic spelling of emulation. [The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.]
v
Obsolete form of emulate (“to emulate”). [(now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.]
n
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
adj
Pretentious, artificial, fake, sham, feigned; doing something just for show.
adj
Simulated in order to impress.
n
Someone who apes something
adj
Characterised by artifice; not spontaneous and natural.
adj
Insincere; fake, forced, or feigned.
v
(obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
adj
Used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
v
(politics, usually lowercase) To fabricate an impression of political support for an agenda.
adj
False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
adj
(by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham.
adj
Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
v
(obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
v
(transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
v
(transitive) To lampoon.
n
An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.
adj
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
n
Alternative form of bon mot. [A clever saying, phrase or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue.]
n
(humorous) Avoiding one's duties and responsibilities by claiming to have appointments to see a fictitious person.
n
A grotesque misrepresentation.
n
A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
n
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
n
(psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
adj
Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
n
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
v
To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
n
Obsolete form of counterfesance. [(obsolete) forgery]
n
A non-genuine article; a fake.
n
A person who counterfeits
adv
(very rare) In a counterfeiting manner.
v
(transitive) To create or turn into a deepfake; to impersonate someone with a deepfake.
n
(artificial intelligence) The creation and use of deepfakes, often with malicious intent.
n
(informal) The situation where a play or film is spoiled by overdirecting.
adj
(obsolete) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
v
(with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
adj
altered; falsified; skewed; manipulated
n
A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.
n
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
v
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
n
(informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
v
(now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
adj
Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
n
A person or thing that emulates.
adj
Pertaining to emulation or rivalry.
n
An undistinguished or inferior imitator of a well known artist or their style.
adj
made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality
v
To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
v
(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
adj
Of a company: that does not make its own silicon wafers, and primarily concerns itself with research and design.
adj
False in the sense of made-up, constructed.
n
(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
adj
fabricating; involved in manufacture
adj
(obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.
n
The act or result of fabulating; a fabrication.
n
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
v
(transitive) To make a facsimile of; to duplicate.
adj
produced artificially or unintentionally; factitious.
adj
Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.
v
(psychology) To present oneself, when being tested or evaluated, in a misleadingly positive manner, exaggerating good traits and playing down bad ones.
v
To feign a certain emotion.
v
(psychology) To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.
v
(informal) To promise more than one can deliver.
adj
(slang, derogatory) Fraudulent, phony, insincere.
v
(Internet slang, transitive, neologism) To call out (a person) on social media for allegedly faking a disorder.
n
An Eastern religious ascetic or monk.
adj
(rare) Full of fakeness; disingenuous
n
(rare) The condition or state of being fake.
n
Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
n
(archaic) A forgery; something faked.
v
(rare, nonstandard, transitive) To make fake; to fake
n
A disingenuous, fraudulent, or artificial relationship.
n
(obsolete) A falsifier of evidence.
n
(archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.
adj
Involving a false flagger
n
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of false pretense. [Representation of untrue facts.]
adj
(obsolete) Feigned, fake.
n
The act or process of making false; falsification
adj
Uttered in a falsetto.
n
(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement.
n
the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
n
(archaic) A falsifier; a person who falsifies or forges something.
adj
Relating to falsification
v
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
n
(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) Fox News.
n
(rare, slang) A fake Rolex watch.
n
A fake romance between celebrities, arranged for publicity.
n
A fake, staged, or doctored photograph.
v
Obsolete form of feign. [To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.]
n
(informal) Any over-exaggerated ordeal.
adj
Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
n
Quality of being feigned.
n
Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretense or stratagem.
adj
Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
adj
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
v
(transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
adj
Fake (as documents); falsified.
n
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
adj
(obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
n
An imitation of a (usually) valuable object that is so good that it is, to all intents and purposes, identical.
adj
Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
n
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
n
Abbreviation of imitation. [The act of imitating.]
n
An instance of imitation.
n
(attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
n
One who imitates the style of another.
adj
Imitating; copying; not original.
n
the act of impersonating
adj
(obsolete) fraudulent; pretending to be someone else
adj
(archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
n
The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition
adj
(obsolete) Done by imposture.
adj
Alternative spelling of imposterous [(obsolete) fraudulent; pretending to be someone else]
adj
(idiomatic) with a symbol, usually an effigy, substituted for a real person or thing.
adj
Not authentic or genuine; spurious.
adj
false, not genuine or authentic.
v
To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
adj
(obsolete) Feigning ignorance; simulating lack of instruction or knowledge; exhibiting Socratic irony.
adj
(Liverpudlian) Not genuine; fake
n
(figuratively) Similar fakery or suspension of disbelief in other contexts.
n
Alternative spelling of knockoff [An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.]
n
An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.
n
Alternative letter-case form of lapalissade [An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.]
n
(advertising) A mockup advertisement filmed with live actors.
adj
Alternative spelling of made-up [Invented or fabricated.]
adj
Invented or fabricated.
v
(idiomatic, childish) To pretend or imagine.
n
(childish) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
adj
Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.
n
Alternative form of make-believe [(childish) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.]
n
Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
adj
(by extension) not genuine; contrived
n
A deceitful military operation performed to convince the targets of the operation that they have had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings, though it is actually a staged ploy.
n
(medicine) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
n
Something mimetic or imitative.
v
(biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
n
(computing) A function that modifies a file to make it assume the statistical properties of another file.
adj
(now rare) Imitative; that mimics something else.
v
Alternative form of mimic [To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.]
n
A person or thing being mimicked
n
Obsolete spelling of mimicry [An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance of someone or something else.]
n
An act or ability to simulate or effect the appearance of someone or something else.
n
A form of stammering in which the /m/ sound is given to various letters.
v
Obsolete form of mimic. [To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.]
v
(dialectal) To imitate or mimic the behaviour of one's superiors; to ape.
v
To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of
v
Obsolete form of mockest.
n
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
adj
(obsolete) mock; counterfeit; sham
n
The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
n
The name of anything important or exciting.
v
(transitive) To fake or fake out more or better than (another)
n
(uncommon) Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
n
Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
n
One who mimics the literary or artistic style of another.
n
Emulation, following as a model; frequently with after.
n
(informal) Attempting to settle conflicts in an unsatisfactory way, for example by denying that there is a problem.
adj
Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
v
(intransitive) To engage in persiflage; to banter.
n
An act of impersonation.
adj
(chiefly Britain) Alternative form of phony [(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.]
v
Alternative form of phony up [To create a false version of something.]
adj
Alternative spelling of phony-baloney [(US, slang) fake; fraudulent]
adj
(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
adj
(simile, set phrase) Extremely phony; fake; dishonest; completely bogus.
v
To create a false version of something.
adj
(US, slang) fake; fraudulent
adj
Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
adv
In a plotting manner; engaging in plots or schemes.
n
(informal) The act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense
n
(figuratively, attributive) Resembling a Potemkin village; fake, facade.
n
(British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
n
(obsolete) The act of pretending; pretense.
n
The character or claims of a pretender.
n
(US) A false or hypocritical profession
adj
(obsolete) pretended; feigned
adj
Abounding in pretenses.
adj
(now rare) Pretended; feigned.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To pretend; to declare falsely.
n
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
adj
Having a false, contrived or assumed purpose; characterized by pretense.
adj
Synonym of pretextual (“false or contrived”)
adj
Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham.
n
A faked or pretend death.
n
false (or even fake) evidence
n
A staged marketing event used to garner publicity.
adj
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
v
(simile) To appear to be exactly what one is.
n
(law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
n
(computing) Alternative form of quux [(computing) Metasyntactic variable.]
adj
Contrived; dishonestly formulated so as to appear authentic.
n
(obsolete) Utterance, speech; an instance of this
v
(obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
n
(psychology) A test measuring a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others. A story is enacted with two dolls: Sally takes a marble and hides it in her basket, and Anne then transfers it to her own basket while Sally is absent. The participant is asked where Sally will expect to find the marble on returning.
n
A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.
adj
Fake, not genuine, counterfeit.
n
(obsolete) A simulacrum.
n
A faint trace or semblance.
n
Something that simulates something else such as, for example, a gemstone.
adj
(obsolete, rare) false; specious; counterfeit
adj
Invented in imitation of a particular thing or of a specific condition; artificial.
n
Assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true.
n
One who simulates or feigns.
n
Falsification or contamination.
adj
Manipulated to appear in a more favorable light.
adj
(of an email) Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
n
Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.
adj
False, not authentic, not genuine.
v
To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
n
The use of parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make an ironic statement.
adj
Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake; supposititious.
adj
(obsolete) Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake.
adj
Artificial, not genuine.
n
(slang) A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
n
A parody or stylistic imitation.
n
Alternative form of trompe d'œil: misconstruction of trompe-l’œil.
adj
Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
adj
false, not genuine or authentic.
adj
Obsolete form of virtual. [In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated.]
n
An imposter, especially one falsely claiming to have done military service.
n
Alternative form of whodunnitry [The plot or technique characteristic of whodunnits; the process of following clues to determine who committed a crime.]
n
(figuratively) An attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.
n
The act of interpreting information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion; a wishful forecast.
n
(idiomatic, psychology) The illusion that what one would like to be true is actually true.
n
The phenomenon whereby frequent citation of earlier publications leads to a mistaken public belief in something for which there is no evidence, giving rise to an urban myth.
v
Archaic spelling of emulate. [(now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.]
n
Obsolete spelling of emulation [The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.]
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