Fake

Definition: Fake

Fake

Adjective

1. Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance.

2. Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide".

Noun

1. Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be.

2. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Verb

1. Make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; She forged a Green Card".

2. Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data".

3. Talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

19th Century Satire

Fine Arts

Literature

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fake

Copy

Servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake;(deception); pasticcio.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Falsehood

Invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; (imagine); cry "wolf!'

Untruth

Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.

Crosswords: Fake

Not really want it. It's all just a fake and a pipe dream (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

It just seems to me to be really fake. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

Good-bye, fake son (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Because we've already got a fake uncle (Spy Kids; writing credit: Robert Rodriguez)

I mean, who has a safe deposit box full of money and fake passports and a gun (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

Honestly you promised me I'm never gonna find you fake it (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Gonna make a break and take a fake (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

And when I fake it (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers)

Ain't you getting bored with these fake ass broads (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

And I just can't fake it ("It's Too Late"; performing artist: Carole King)

Fake (2000)

The Fake (1953)

True Love and Fake Money (1917)

The Fake Soldiers (1913)

Fake Clouds (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beatles Fake Book (reference)

• Classic Rock Fake Book - 2nd Edition (reference)

• Disney Fake Book (reference)

• The Ultimate Country Fake Book (reference)

• Ultimate Christmas Fake Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fake (reference)

• F for Fake (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fake Can Be Just As Good (reference)

• The Fake Sound of Progress (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A fake fortune teller can be tolerated

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Actually a lot of fake perfumes imitating selective brands are sold through such outlets. (references)

High prices have led many customers to buy fake or poor quality products at lower prices. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Although counterfeit parts are still a huge problem, local dealers and distributors are cooperating with international auto spare parts suppliers to aggressively campaign against fake and counterfeit automotive parts. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

The inferior quality of fake and unauthorized products poses serious health and safety risks to consumers. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

Victims are trafficked through such means as fake employment offers, arranged marriages, fraud, and coercive measures. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "fake": fake an address ♦ fake book ♦ fake money ♦ fake up ♦ French fake. Additional references.

Beginning with "fake": fake-auricula, fake-french, fake-fur, fake-fur-leopard-print-whatever, fake-gold, fake-half-timbered, fake-innocent, fake-log, fake-medieval, fake-sensitive, fake-snake, fake-stereo.

Albanian

falsifikoj (adulterate, counterfeit, fabricate, falsify, forge, wangle), vepër e falsifikuar, simuloj (malinger), shtihem (devote, pose), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏مستعار مزور, ‏مستعار (false, pseudo), ‏لفق (concoct, contrive, create, fabricate, forge, fudge, invent, make up, trump up), ‏قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), ‏حلقة (circle, coterie, installment, instalment, ring), ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulate, simulation), ‏زيف (adulterate, alloy, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏شىء مزيف (counterfeit), ‏دجل (charlatanry, delusion, fraud, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, imposture, lie, quackery), ‏دجال (empiric, humbug, juggler, sham). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшифицирам (adulterate, corrupt, counterfeit, doctor, falsify, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, tamper), фалшификация (counterfeit, ersatz, fabrication, falsification, forgery, sham), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), навивам (coil, curl, expend, furl, lap, quill, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck, tuck up, wind, wind up), преструван (counterfeiter, dissimulator, pretender, shammer), преструвам се (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, sham, simulate), правя имитация на, импровизирам (ad lib, extemporize, gag, improvise, jam, throw off, toss off), имитация (counterfeit, ersatz, imitation, mock, pinchbeck, repetition, replication, sham, simulation), измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, sharpy, slicker, swindler), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fib, fiction, figment, flam, hoax, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tale, tall story, taradiddle). (various references)

Chinese 

偽 (bogus, false, forged), 假作, 假 (artificial, false, if, suppose, to borrow, vacation). (various references)

Czech

filmovat (film, play act, shoot), falzifikát, falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong), falšovat (adulterate, doctor, fabricate, falsify, forge, tamper), podvodník (cheat, con man, confidence trickster, conman, crook, deceiver, dodger, fiddler, fraud, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, racketeer, rascal, runner, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster), předstírat (affect, dissimulate, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, sham, simulate), padìlek (counterfeit, falsification, phoney, phony), padìlat (counterfeit, fabricate, falsify, forge), padìlaný (bogus, counterfeit, forged), napodobenina (counterfeit, imitation), šarlatán (charlatan, humbug, quack, quacksalver, sciolist). (various references)

Danish

forfalskning (adulteration, counterfeit, forgery, literary piracy, pirated edition). (various references)

Dutch

vervalsing (counterfeit), nabootsing (imitation). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), وانمودکردن (Affect, Assume, Dissemble, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham, Simulate), حلقه کردن (Curl), تقلید (Burlesque, Imitation, Mime, Mimicry), جعل (Fiction), جازدن . (various references)

Finnish

väärennys (adulteration, counterfeit, falsification, forgery). (various references)

French

feinte, faux (false). (various references)

German

falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, sham, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

απομίμηση (imitation, mimicry). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזויף (bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dummy, false, forged, made up, meretricious, mock, postiche, snide, specious, spurious), לזיף (fabricate, falsify, forge, sham, simulate, tamper), זיוף (adulteration, fabrication, falsification, falsity, forgery). (various references)

Hungarian

hamisítvány (adulteration, bastard, counterfeit, forgery, imitation), utánzat (artificial, counterfeit, dummy, echo, imitation, parody, pasticci, pasticcio, pastiche, sham), szédelgés, szédelgő (faker, fraud, mountebank, skin), meghamisítás (adulteration, distortion, sophistication), koholmány (fabrication, fiction, figment, forgery, fudge, invention, prevarication), koholás (framing, getting up), kötélgyűrű (grummet, squirm), csel (art, artifice, catch, cod, cunning, dodge, feint, fetch, gimmick, ruse, stratagem, trick, tweak), csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery), bűvészláda, bűvészkellék, értéktelen utánzat. (various references)

Indonesian

tiruan (artificiality, copy, imitation, model, replica, reproduction, synthetic), palsu (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, pseudo), gadungan (bogus, imitation). (various references)

Italian

falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

贋作 (counterfeit, sham), 眉唾物 (counterfeit), フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor), 拵え物 (imitation), 擬い物 (an imitation), まま娘 (counterfeit, deception, make-believe, penis, phony, screw, stepdaughter, to cheat, to deceive, to swindle, vagina), 作り物 (artificial product, crop, decoration), 如何物 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がんさく (counterfeit, sham), フェイク , まがいもの (an imitation, imitation, sham), まゆつばもの (counterfeit), まやかし (counterfeit, deception, make-believe, phony), つくりもの (artificial product, crop, decoration), にせさく (counterfeit, sham), いかもの, こしらえもの (imitation). (various references)

Korean 

가짜 (sham, spurious). (various references)

Manx

foalseyr (faker, forger), foalsaghey (counterfeit, deceitfully, deceive, doctor, falsification, falsify, forge), far- (fresh, mock, prefix pseudo-, pseudo-, super), cur cummey foalsey er. (various references)

Norwegian

forfalskning (counterfeit, falsification), forfalske (adulterate, counterfeit, falsify). (various references)

Pig Latin

akefay.(various references)

Portuguese

falsificação (adulteration, bogus, counterfeit, dud, falsification, forgery, mock, phoney, phony, salting, sham, sophistication, substitute). (various references)

Romanian

falsifica (adulterate, alter, cook, counterfeit, debase, distort, doctor, Duff, falsify, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), truc (catch, device, dodge, fetch, jugglery, knack, pass, stratagem, trick, wheeze), ipocrizie (cant, double dealing, duplicity, humbug, hypocrisy, left-handedness, pietism, unction), contrafacere (counterfeit, forgery, forging), contraface (adulterate, counterfeit, forge), şiretlic (catch, device, ruse, sharp practice, shift, shuffle, stratagem, trick, trickery, wile), înşelãciune (bluff, cheat, deceit, deception, flim-flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, guile, hoax, humbug, illusion, intake). (various references)

Russian 

фальсифицировать (adulterate, falsify), фальшивка (fabrication, flam), фабриковать (coin, forge ahead, manufacture, trump up), подделывать подделка фальшивый, подделывать (counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, forge, tamper, tin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

falsifikovati (counterfeit, falsify, forge, wangle), falsifikat (adulteration, counterfeit, forgery), varalica (charlatan, chouse, crook, double-dealer, fraud, gyp, impostor, jack-in-the-box, mountebank, sharper, swindler, trickster, wheeler dealer), simulirati (assume the appearance, dissemble, feign, malinger, simulate), prevarant (bilker, cheat, chouse, confidence trickster, deceiver, faker, wheeler dealer), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), pozirati (attitudinize, pose, pretend, sit), patvoren (artificial, pinchbeck), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Spanish

fingir (act, affect, dissemble, feign, Fox, give as an excuse, make believe, make out, mint, pretend, sham, simulate), falso (ambidexter, apostate, bad, bastard, blank, blind, bogus, brummagem, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, double-minded, dud, dummy, false, hollow, incorrect, lost, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pseudo, quack, sham, shifty, spurious, treacherous, two faced, two-tongued, unsounded, untrue, wrong), falsificar (debase, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, forge, juggle, juggle with, misrepresent, rig, trump up), falsificacion (adulteration), falsificación (counterfeit, falsification, forgery, misrepresentation), mistificacion, improvisar (ad lib, extemporize, improvise, jam, throw off, vamp), impostura (imposture, jactitation, sham), imitación (copy, imitation, impression, mimicry, pinchbeck, takeoff), contrahacer (counterfeit, forge, imitate, take off, to clone). (various references)

Swedish

förfalskning (adulteration, counterfeit, Counterfeiting, debasement, fabrication, falsification, forgery), förfalska (adulterate, constitution, cook, counterfeit, debase, doctor, fabricate, fake up, falsify, fiddle, forge, load). (various references)

Thai

สร้างเรื่องขึ้น, ปลอมแปลง (cook), ปลอม (false, imitative, spurious), ของปลอม. (various references)

Turkish

sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), şarlatan (charlatan, croaker, dabbler, empiric, faker, humbug, mountebank, phoney, phony, quack, sciolist, wag), dolandıran, hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), numara yapmak (act, make a show of, perform, pretend, sham), numaracı (affected, affecting, faker, fakir, poser, poseur, shammer, simulator, tricksy), aldatıcı (baffling, beguiling, catchy, colorable, colored, coloured, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, double dealing, elusory, fallacious, googly, hype, illusive, illusory, indirect, specious, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky), sağ gösterip sol vurmak, uyduruk (fictitious, invented, made up, trumped-up), sahte şey (bogus, counterfeit, forgery, phoney, phony), sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, crooked, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), sahtesini yapmak (counterfeit, debase, fabricate, falsify, forge), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, counterfeit, do an impression of smb., echo, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, mock, simulate, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), olduğundan iyi gibi göstermek. (various references)

Turkmen 

jцgi (hypocritical, phony), galp (counterfeit). (various references)

Ukrainian

шахраювати (cheat, cog, cozen, dodge, gyp, humbug, play foul, poach, rogue, sharp), кільце каната, підробка (adulteration, counterfeit, dud, falsehood, forgery, pinchbeck, postiche, sham), підробляти (adulterate, counterfeit, falsify, feign, forge, imitate, mimic, tamper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật làm giả, giả mạo (apocryphal, feigned, pinchbeck, spurious, suppositious), đồ giả mạo. (various references)

facere. (various references)

fegen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fake": faked, fakeer, fakeers, faker, fakeries, fakers, fakery, fakes, fakey. (additional references)

Words containing "fake": unfaked. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aface, Cfka, eake, faak, fabe, fabee, faca, facae, faceo, facex, facey, faci, Fack, faco, facp, facue, facy, fae, fage, fahe, Faik, Fajko, fak, faka, fakel, fakey, fakie, fakle, fakr, Faks, fakt, fa-kwei, faky, Fale, falken, falko, fape, fave, fawk, faxe, feace, fece, Fedka, Feek, feke, Fekih, Fetke, Fialka, fice, fiek, Fika, fike, fikey, fikle, fkame, foke, frake, fuckee, fuk, Fukaba, Fukao, Fukaya, fuke, fukkit, Fukue, vake. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kae, kaf, kea, kef.

-2 letters: ae, ef, fa, ka.

+1 letter: faked, faker, fakes, fakey, flake, freak, kenaf.

+2 letters: fakeer, fakers, fakery, flaked, flaker, flakes, flakey, freaks, freaky, kenafs.

+3 letters: fakeers, fanlike, fatlike, flacked, flakers, flakier, flanked, flanken, flanker, flasket, forsake, franked, franker, freaked, rakeoff, takeoff, unfaked, wakeful.

+4 letters: backfire, beefcake, calflike, ecofreak, facemask, fakeries, fanglike, faunlike, fawnlike, feedback, fireback, flackery, flakiest, flankens, flankers, flaskets, foamlike, folktale, forepeak, forerank, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, frankers, frankest, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freakout, halfbeak, kaffiyeh, kalewife, kalifate, leaflike, makefast, prefrank, rakeoffs, takeoffs, talkfest, waiflike, wakerife, weakfish, workfare.