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In some senses, counterfeit is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
gold, illegal, sudden
VERB + COUNTERFEIT
bought, coin, finding, like, making, sell, started
COUNTERFEIT + NOUN
asian, bill, bills, dvds, items, money, people, products
PREP.
from, in
ADV.
such
adj
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"
Inauthentic.
counterfeit sympathy
How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]
Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
an arrant counterfeit rascal
noun
A non-genuine article; a fake.
Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
An impostor; a cheat.
I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
verb
To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
To produce a faithful copy of.
The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"
To feign; to mimic.
to counterfeit the voice of another person
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
WiktionaryFinding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"
Wiktionarycounterfeit sympathy
WiktionaryNever call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
WiktionarySome of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
Wiktionary‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underde
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In some senses, counterfeit is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.