'phony' definitions:
Definition of 'phony'
From: WordNet
adjective
noun
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]
Definition of 'phony'
From: GCIDE
- phoney \pho"ney\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), n. Something or someone that is phoney. [Also spelled phony.] [PJC]
Definition of 'phony'
From: GCIDE
- phoney \pho"ney\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), a. [Also spelled phony.] [Compar. phonier; superl. phoniest.]
- 1. Imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; false; counterfeit; fake; as, a phoney diamond; a phoney hundred-dollar bill.
- Syn: bogus, counterfeit, fake, ersatz; fraudulent; false. [PJC]
- 2. Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people. [PJC]
Definition of 'phony'
From: GCIDE
- phony \pho"ny\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), n. Something or someone that is phony. [Also spelled phoney.] [PJC]
Definition of 'phony'
From: GCIDE
- phony \pho"ny\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), a. [Also spelled phoney.] [Compar. phonier; superl. phoniest.]
- 1. imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake; as, a phony diamond; a phony hundred-dollar bill.
- Syn: phoney, bogus, counterfeit, fake. [PJC]
- 2. Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'phony'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actor,
- affected,
- affecter,
- agent,
- alike,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- ape,
- aped,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- backup,
- bastard,
- blagueur,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- canter,
- certified copy,
- change,
- changeling,
- charlatan,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- comparison,
- conformist,
- consimilar,
- copied,
- copier,
- copy,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- deceiver,
- deputy,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- distorted,
- double,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- ectype,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- factitious,
- fair copy,
- fair-weather friend,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- faker,
- false,
- false friend,
- falsified,
- favoring,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- fill-in,
- following,
- forged,
- forger,
- forgery,
- fourflusher,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- garbled,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hoax,
- hokey,
- hollow man,
- homogeneous,
- humbug,
- hypocrite,
- hypocritical,
- icon,
- identical,
- illegitimate,
- image,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- imitator,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- Joseph Surface,
- junk,
- junky,
- like,
- likeness,
- locum tenens,
- make-believe,
- makeshift,
- malingerer,
- man of straw,
- man-made,
- mannerist,
- mealymouth,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicked,
- mimicker,
- mock,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- monkey,
- mountebank,
- nearly reproduced,
- next best thing,
- not unlike,
- paper tiger,
- parrot,
- paste,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- Pecksniff,
- performer,
- personnel,
- perverted,
- pharisee,
- picture,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarized,
- playactor,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- portrait,
- poser,
- poseur,
- pretended,
- pretender,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quack,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- quasi,
- queer,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representation,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- resembling,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rip-off,
- saltimbanco,
- sanctimonious fraud,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-styled,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shammer,
- sheep,
- shoddy,
- sign,
- similar,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- simulator,
- smacking of,
- snide,
- snuffler,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- something like,
- spare,
- spares,
- spoof,
- spurious,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- straw man,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- suggestive of,
- summer soldier,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supposititious,
- surrogate,
- swindle,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- synthetic,
- Tartuffe,
- 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,
- whited sepulcher