counterfeit

UK /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/ US /ˈkaʊn.tɚˌfɪt/
noun 4verb 4adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

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?"

2

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; […]

3

Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.

an arrant counterfeit rascal

noun

1

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.

2

One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.

3

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.

4

An impostor; a cheat.

I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.

verb

1

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.

2

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,"

3

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.

4

Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

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