'ersatz' definitions:
Definition of 'ersatz'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee" [syn: ersatz, substitute]
noun
An artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
Synonyms of 'ersatz'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- agent,
- alike,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- aped,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- backup,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- change,
- changeling,
- colorable,
- colored,
- comparison,
- consimilar,
- copied,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deputy,
- distorted,
- double,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- exchange,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- favoring,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- fill-in,
- following,
- forged,
- garbled,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hokey,
- homogeneous,
- identical,
- illegitimate,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- junky,
- like,
- locum tenens,
- make-believe,
- makeshift,
- man-made,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicked,
- mock,
- nearly reproduced,
- next best thing,
- not unlike,
- personnel,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarized,
- pretended,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resembling,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- sign,
- similar,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- smacking of,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- something like,
- spare,
- spares,
- spurious,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- suggestive of,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supposititious,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- synthetic,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- token,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- understudy,
- ungenuine,
- uniform with,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- utility,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- warped