'Counterfeit' definitions:
Definition of 'counterfeit'
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Definition of 'Counterfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\ (koun"t?r-f?t), a. [F. contrefait, p. p. of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra) + faire to make, fr. L. facere. See Counter, adv., and Fact.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. [1913 Webster]
- Look here upon this picture, and on this The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." --Robinson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
- 3. Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal." --Shak.
- Syn: Forged; fictitious; spurious; false. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Counterfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, n.
- 1. That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. [1913 Webster]
- Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Even Nature's self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit. [1913 Webster]
- Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat. [1913 Webster]
- I fear thou art another counterfeit; And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Counterfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. i.
- 1. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend. [1913 Webster]
- The knave counterfeits well; a good knave. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make counterfeits. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Counterfeit'
From: GCIDE
- Counterfeit \Coun"ter*feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterfeiting.]
- 1. To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person. [1913 Webster]
- Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'counterfeit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act,
- act a part,
- act like,
- affect,
- affected,
- agent,
- alike,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- ape,
- aped,
- apocryphal,
- appear like,
- approach,
- approximate,
- artificial,
- assume,
- assumed,
- backup,
- bad check,
- bad money,
- base coin,
- bastard,
- be like,
- be redolent of,
- bear resemblance,
- bluff,
- bogus,
- bogus money,
- borrow,
- bring to mind,
- brummagem,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- certified copy,
- change,
- changeling,
- cheat,
- chorus,
- clinquant,
- coin,
- colorable,
- colored,
- come close,
- come near,
- compare with,
- comparison,
- concoct,
- consimilar,
- cook up,
- copied,
- copy,
- correspond,
- counterfeit money,
- counterfeited,
- cover up,
- crib,
- deceit,
- deception,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- deputy,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distorted,
- ditto,
- do,
- do a bit,
- do like,
- double,
- dramatize,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- echo,
- ectype,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- evoke,
- exchange,
- fabricate,
- facsimile,
- factitious,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- false,
- false money,
- falsified,
- falsify,
- fantasize,
- favor,
- favoring,
- feign,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- fill-in,
- follow,
- following,
- forge,
- forged,
- forgery,
- four-flush,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- fraudulent,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- garbled,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- go like,
- green goods,
- gyp,
- hatch,
- histrionize,
- hoax,
- hoke,
- hoke up,
- hokey,
- homogeneous,
- humbug,
- icon,
- identical,
- illegitimate,
- image,
- imitate,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- insincere,
- invent,
- junk,
- junky,
- kite,
- let on,
- let on like,
- like,
- likeness,
- locum tenens,
- look like,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make up,
- make-believe,
- makeshift,
- man-made,
- manufacture,
- match,
- meretricious,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimic,
- mimicked,
- mint,
- mirror,
- misleading,
- mock,
- near,
- nearly reproduce,
- nearly reproduced,
- next best thing,
- not tell apart,
- not unlike,
- overact,
- parallel,
- partake of,
- paste,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- personnel,
- perverted,
- phony,
- picture,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarize,
- plagiarized,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play possum,
- playact,
- portrait,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- profess,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pseudo,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queer,
- reecho,
- reflect,
- relief,
- remind one of,
- repeat,
- replacement,
- representation,
- representative,
- reproduce,
- reproduction,
- resemblance,
- resemble,
- resembling,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rip-off,
- rubber check,
- savor of,
- second string,
- secondary,
- seem like,
- self-styled,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- shove the queer,
- sign,
- similar,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- smack of,
- smacking of,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- something like,
- sound like,
- spare,
- spares,
- spurious,
- stack up with,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- suggest,
- suggestive of,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supposititious,
- surrogate,
- swindle,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- synthetic,
- 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-regent,
- warped,
- wear,
- whited sepulcher