Related Words:
- ad-lib,
- angle,
- beget,
- breed,
- brew,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- cabal,
- call into being,
- coin,
- collude,
- complot,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- connive,
- conspire,
- contrive,
- counterfeit,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- dash off,
- design,
- develop,
- devise,
- discover,
- do offhand,
- dream up,
- engender,
- engineer,
- evolve,
- extemporize,
- fabricate,
- fake,
- fantasize,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- fix,
- forge,
- formulate,
- frame,
- frame up,
- fudge,
- generate,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hoke up,
- improvisate,
- improvise,
- intrigue,
- invent,
- jury-rig,
- knock off,
- lash up,
- lay a plot,
- machinate,
- make do with,
- make up,
- maneuver,
- manufacture,
- mature,
- mint,
- operate,
- originate,
- pack,
- pack the deal,
- plan,
- play by ear,
- plot,
- prearrange,
- preconcert,
- precontrive,
- predesign,
- premeditate,
- preorder,
- procreate,
- rig,
- scheme,
- scrap the plan,
- set up,
- sew up,
- spawn,
- stack the cards,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- think out,
- think up,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- trump up,
- vamp,
- vamp up,
- wangle,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assembled,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- built,
- cast,
- colorable,
- colored,
- constructed,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crafted,
- created,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- formed,
- garbled,
- gathered,
- grown,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- junky,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- make-believe,
- manufactured,
- milled,
- mined,
- mock,
- molded,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- pretended,
- processed,
- pseudo,
- put together,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shaped,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- smelted,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made
- embellished
collapse - rich in decorative detail
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" related words >
- adorned,
- advanced,
- affected,
- ameliorated,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- beaded,
- beautified,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- bettered,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- civilized,
- colorable,
- colored,
- converted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- developed,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- educated,
- embroidered,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fancy,
- feathered,
- feigned,
- festooned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figurative,
- figured,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garbled,
- garnished,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- improved,
- jeweled,
- junky,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- perfected,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plumed,
- polished,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- purple,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refined,
- reformed,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- spurious,
- studded,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- wreathed
- replacement
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- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" related words >
- agency,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- backup man,
- change,
- changeling,
- commutation,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- deputy,
- deputyship,
- descendant,
- displacement,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- heir,
- imitation,
- improvement,
- inheritor,
- instauration,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- posterity,
- power of attorney,
- proxy,
- quid pro quo,
- reactivation,
- reconstitution,
- reconversion,
- redintegration,
- reenactment,
- reestablishment,
- reformation,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- reinstation,
- reinstitution,
- reinvestiture,
- reinvestment,
- relief,
- representation,
- representative,
- reserves,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- reversion,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- subrogation,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- successor,
- supersedence,
- superseder,
- superseding,
- supersedure,
- supersession,
- supplantation,
- supplanter,
- supplanting,
- supplantment,
- surrogate,
- switch,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- tit for tat,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicariousness,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- assume,
- betoken,
- bluff,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- counterfeit,
- cover up,
- cut a dash,
- cut a figure,
- cut a swath,
- dangle,
- dazzle,
- demonstrate,
- develop,
- disclose,
- display,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- divulge,
- do a bit,
- dramatize,
- embody,
- enact,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- express,
- fake,
- feign,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- four-flush,
- gammon,
- give sign,
- give token,
- glare,
- glitter,
- highlight,
- histrionize,
- illuminate,
- incarnate,
- indicate,
- let on,
- let on like,
- make a figure,
- make a pretense,
- make a show,
- make a splash,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make clear,
- make like,
- make out like,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- materialize,
- mean,
- overact,
- parade,
- perform,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play possum,
- playact,
- present,
- pretend,
- produce,
- profess,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- represent,
- reveal,
- roll out,
- set forth,
- sham,
- shine,
- show,
- show forth,
- simulate,
- splash,
- splurge,
- spotlight,
- token,
- trot out,
- tug the heartstrings,
- unfold,
- wave,
- wear
- dramatize
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- represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
- put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" related words >
- act a part,
- affect,
- assume,
- be a gas,
- be a hit,
- betoken,
- bill,
- bomb,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- counterfeit,
- dangle,
- demonstrate,
- develop,
- disclose,
- display,
- divulge,
- do a bit,
- embody,
- enact,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exaggerate,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- express,
- fail,
- fake,
- feature,
- feign,
- flaunt,
- flop,
- flourish,
- give sign,
- give token,
- headline,
- highlight,
- histrionize,
- illuminate,
- incarnate,
- indicate,
- make a hit,
- make clear,
- make out like,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- materialize,
- mean,
- melodramatize,
- mount,
- open,
- open a show,
- overact,
- overdo,
- overplay,
- overstate,
- parade,
- perform,
- pile it on,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play up,
- playact,
- premiere,
- present,
- pretend,
- preview,
- produce,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- represent,
- reveal,
- roll out,
- scenarize,
- set forth,
- set the stage,
- sham,
- show,
- show forth,
- simulate,
- splash,
- spotlight,
- stage,
- star,
- succeed,
- theatricalize,
- token,
- trot out,
- try out,
- tug the heartstrings,
- unfold,
- wave,
- wear
- Barnumize,
- act a part,
- affect,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- assume,
- ballyhoo,
- bedaub,
- besmear,
- blarney,
- blow,
- blow off,
- blowhard,
- bombast,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- butter,
- butter up,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- coat,
- counterfeit,
- dab,
- daub,
- do a bit,
- dramatize,
- draw the longbow,
- enamel,
- exaggerate,
- fake,
- feign,
- get around,
- gild,
- gloss,
- go to extremes,
- histrionize,
- honey,
- hyperbolize,
- inflate,
- jolly,
- kid along,
- lacquer,
- lay it on,
- lay on,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- make out like,
- oil,
- overact,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdo it,
- overdraw,
- overestimate,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstress,
- pile it on,
- play,
- play a part,
- play a scene,
- play up to,
- playact,
- pontificate,
- pretend,
- prime,
- puff,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- sham,
- shoot the shit,
- simulate,
- slap on,
- slather,
- smear,
- smear on,
- soap,
- soft-soap,
- soften up,
- spread on,
- spread with,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- string along,
- stroke,
- talk big,
- talk highfalutin,
- talk in superlatives,
- tar,
- tout,
- travesty,
- tug the heartstrings,
- undercoat,
- vapor,
- wear
- second string
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- a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game related words >
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- back seat,
- backup,
- cast,
- change,
- changeling,
- common,
- company,
- comparison,
- complement,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crew,
- demeaning,
- deputy,
- disadvantaged,
- double,
- dummy,
- eight,
- eleven,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humble,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- imitation,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- inferiority,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- juniority,
- less,
- lesser,
- locum tenens,
- low,
- lower,
- lowliness,
- lowly,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minor,
- minority,
- modest,
- next best thing,
- nine,
- ordinary,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- platoon,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rowing crew,
- second fiddle,
- second rank,
- second team,
- secondariness,
- secondary,
- servile,
- servility,
- sign,
- spares,
- squad,
- stand-in,
- string,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subjection,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- subservient,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- team,
- third rank,
- third string,
- token,
- underprivileged,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- varsity,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vulgar
- accidental,
- ad hoc,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- contingent,
- counterfeit,
- cut-and-try,
- dangerous,
- dependent,
- desultory,
- dummy,
- empirical,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- experimental,
- fake,
- fixed,
- forehanded,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- given,
- hazardous,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- imitation,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- mock,
- nonessential,
- occasional,
- perilous,
- phony,
- pilot,
- pinch,
- precarious,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- preparative,
- preparatory,
- prerequisite,
- pro tem,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- propaedeutic,
- provident,
- proving,
- provisory,
- proxy,
- qualified,
- reserve,
- risky,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- secondary,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- spare,
- specificative,
- specified,
- stated,
- stipulated,
- stipulatory,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- test,
- testing,
- ticklish,
- token,
- transitional,
- treacherous,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- trying,
- undependable,
- unessential,
- unfaithworthy,
- unreliable,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- utility,
- verificatory,
- vicarious
- deceptive
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- designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- bogus,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- empty,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evasive,
- fake,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- fraudulent,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hollow,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- misleading,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- pseudo,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- untruthful,
- visionary,
- wide,
- wrong
- backup
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- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet" related words >
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- attorney,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backup man,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fake,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- ringer,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swingaround,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- volte-face
- illegitimate
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- contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful related words >
- actionable,
- affected,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bantling,
- bar sinister,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bastard child,
- bastardy,
- black-market,
- bogus,
- bootleg,
- brummagem,
- by-blow,
- chargeable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- criminal,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- felonious,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegal,
- illegitimacy,
- illegitimate child,
- illicit,
- imitation,
- impermissible,
- improper,
- incorrect,
- invalid,
- irregular,
- junky,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- love child,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- misbegotten,
- miscreated,
- mock,
- natural,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- punishable,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- triable,
- twisted,
- unallowed,
- unauthentic,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- ungenuine,
- unlawful,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unreal,
- unstatutory,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrongful
- tin
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- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- aureate,
- bag,
- barrel,
- basket,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bottle,
- box,
- box up,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- brummagem,
- can,
- capsule,
- carton,
- case,
- cask,
- colorable,
- colored,
- copper,
- coppery,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crate,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- distorted,
- do up,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encase,
- encyst,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- hamper,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- iron,
- ironlike,
- jar,
- junky,
- lead,
- leaden,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- mock,
- nickel,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- pack,
- package,
- parcel,
- perverted,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pot,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put up,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- sack,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- silver,
- silver-plated,
- silvery,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- steel,
- steely,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tank,
- tinny,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- apocryphal
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- being of questionable authenticity
- of or belonging to the Apocrypha related words >
- Albigensian,
- Arian,
- Catharist,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- Erastian,
- Gnostic,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- Manichaean,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- Pelagian,
- Sabellian,
- Waldensian,
- Wyclifite,
- affected,
- antinomian,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- distorted,
- doubtful,
- dressed up,
- dubious,
- dummy,
- emanationist,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- nonofficial,
- nonorthodox,
- open to question,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- questionable,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unaccepted,
- unapproved,
- unattested,
- unauthentic,
- unauthenticated,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- uncertified,
- unchecked,
- unconfirmed,
- uncorroborated,
- undemonstrated,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- untrue,
- unvalidated,
- unverified,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrong
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- alibi,
- apology,
- apply to,
- assume,
- be the goat,
- becloud,
- befog,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- bluff,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- cope,
- counterfeit,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cowl,
- curtain,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distract attention from,
- eclipse,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- excuse,
- facade,
- fake,
- feign,
- feint,
- film,
- four-flush,
- front,
- front for,
- gammon,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- handle,
- hide,
- hood,
- keep under cover,
- lame excuse,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- let on,
- let on like,
- locus standi,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- mantle,
- mask,
- muffle,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- ostensible motive,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- poor excuse,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- profess,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- screen,
- scum,
- semblance,
- shade,
- sham,
- shield,
- show,
- shroud,
- simulate,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- spread over,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash
- approximate
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- located close together; "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united"
- very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"
- not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
- be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own" related words >
- accost,
- advance,
- advancing,
- ape,
- appear like,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appropinquate,
- approximating,
- approximative,
- arm-in-arm,
- assimilate,
- attracted to,
- be around,
- be like,
- be near,
- be redolent of,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear resemblance,
- bear up,
- begin to,
- bring near,
- bring to mind,
- burning,
- call,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- cheek-by-jowl,
- close,
- close in,
- close with,
- come,
- come close,
- come closer,
- come forward,
- come near,
- come on,
- come up,
- coming,
- comparable,
- compare with,
- confront,
- connaturalize,
- copy,
- correspond,
- counterfeit,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- drawn to,
- encounter,
- estimated,
- evoke,
- favor,
- follow,
- forthcoming,
- gain upon,
- get warm,
- hand-in-hand,
- homologous,
- hot,
- imitate,
- imminent,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- inexact,
- intimate,
- judge,
- lax,
- like,
- look like,
- loose,
- match,
- mimic,
- mirror,
- much at one,
- much the same,
- narrow the gap,
- near,
- near the mark,
- nearing,
- nearish,
- nearly reproduce,
- nearly the same,
- negligent,
- nigh,
- nighish,
- not tell apart,
- oncoming,
- out of line,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- out of true,
- parallel,
- partake of,
- place,
- propinque,
- proximal,
- proximate,
- put,
- quasi,
- reckon,
- relatable,
- relative,
- remind one of,
- resemble,
- rough,
- rude,
- same but different,
- savor of,
- seem like,
- side-by-side,
- sidle up to,
- similar,
- similarize,
- simulate,
- smack of,
- sound like,
- stack up with,
- step up,
- suggest,
- take after,
- to come,
- unfactual,
- unprecise,
- unrigorous,
- upcoming,
- verge on,
- vicinal,
- warm
- U-boat,
- U-boot,
- Unterseeboot,
- act for,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- change,
- change places with,
- changeling,
- collateral,
- common,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- demeaning,
- dependent,
- deputy,
- disadvantaged,
- displace,
- double,
- double for,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill in for,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- humble,
- imitation,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- locum tenens,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minor,
- modest,
- next best thing,
- ordinary,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pigboat,
- pinch hitter,
- pinch-hit,
- proxy,
- relief,
- relieve,
- replace,
- replacement,
- represent,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- sign,
- spares,
- spell,
- spell off,
- stand in for,
- stand-in,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- submarine,
- submersible,
- subordinate,
- subrogate,
- subservient,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitute for,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- succeed,
- supersede,
- superseder,
- supplant,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swap places with,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third rank,
- third string,
- token,
- tributary,
- under,
- underprivileged,
- understudy,
- understudy for,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vulgar
- imposture
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- pretending to be another person related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiting,
- cozenage,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- emulation,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- front,
- gambit,
- gerrymandering,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hit-off,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposition,
- impression,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- phony,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- ploy,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- put-on,
- quackery,
- quackishness,
- quackism,
- racket,
- repetition,
- representation,
- ruse,
- scam,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- swindle,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing
- utility
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- the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; "the cost of utilities never decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities"
- the quality of being of practical use
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice related words >
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- account,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- aktiebolag,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- appliance,
- applicability,
- appropriateness,
- availability,
- backup,
- beneficialness,
- body corporate,
- business,
- business establishment,
- cartel,
- chamber of commerce,
- combine,
- commercial enterprise,
- compagnie,
- company,
- concern,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- convenience,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- counterfeit,
- diversified corporation,
- drive,
- dummy,
- effectiveness,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- engine,
- enginery,
- enterprise,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- facility,
- fake,
- favorableness,
- firm,
- fitness,
- fixture,
- functionality,
- helpfulness,
- holding company,
- house,
- imitation,
- industry,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- machine,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mock,
- motive power,
- motor,
- operability,
- operating company,
- partnership,
- phony,
- pinch,
- plunderbund,
- pool,
- power plant,
- power source,
- practicability,
- practical utility,
- practicality,
- profitability,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- public utility,
- relevance,
- reserve,
- secondary,
- service,
- serviceability,
- spare,
- stock company,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- syndicate,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- token,
- trade association,
- trust,
- usability,
- use,
- usefulness,
- utilizability,
- vicarious
- affected,
- aimless,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- beyond one,
- biased,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- butchered,
- castrated,
- catachrestic,
- colorable,
- colored,
- complex,
- complicated,
- cooked,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- cut short,
- designless,
- difficult,
- distorted,
- docked,
- doctored,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eisegetical,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- empty,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hashed,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- importless,
- inane,
- inauthentic,
- insignificant,
- intricate,
- jumbled,
- junky,
- knotty,
- lopped,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mangled,
- meaningless,
- misapprehended,
- miscited,
- misconceived,
- misconstrued,
- misinterpreted,
- misquoted,
- misread,
- misreported,
- misrepresented,
- misstated,
- mistaken,
- misunderstood,
- mock,
- mutilated,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- null,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- overtechnical,
- perplexed,
- perverted,
- phatic,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- scrambled,
- self-styled,
- senseless,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- slanted,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- strained,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tortured,
- tough,
- truncated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unmeaning,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- unsignificant,
- warped
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