counterfeit

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
2. (not-comparable) Inauthentic.
3. (not-comparable) Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.

Noun

1. A non-genuine article; a fake.
2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
3. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
4. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.

Verb

1. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To produce a faithful copy of.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To feign; to mimic.
4. (transitive) Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

Synonyms

fake

forge

forgery

sham

false

imitation

spurious

falsify

forged

copy

bogus

artificial

mock

feigned

imitate

faked

fraud

fabricate

imitative

pretended

phony

falsification

unreal

shoddy

simulated

simulate

adulterate

fakery

not genuine

trickery

assumed

supposititious

untrue

duplicate

dummy

clone

adulterated

reproduce

wrong

pretend

fictitious

feign

phoney

prevaricate

make-believe

base

mimic

ape

🐒

misrepresent

quack

Translations

falsificare

falso

vervalsen

contrefaire

Fälschung

falsificar

contraffare

contraffazione

faux

falsifier

contrefait

falsificar

fälschen

contrefaçon

falsejar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: counterfeit

In summary

From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.