Related Words:
- ersatz
collapse - an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
- artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee" related words >
- 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
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- warped
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- used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked" related words >
- abandoned,
- affected,
- anamorphous,
- antiblack,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- asymmetric,
- bastard,
- bent,
- biased,
- blemished,
- bogus,
- bowed,
- brummagem,
- chauvinistic,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- cockeyed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contaminated,
- contorted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- debased,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deformed,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- deviative,
- disfigured,
- dissolute,
- distorted,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- influenced,
- interested,
- involved,
- irregular,
- jaundiced,
- junky,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- know-nothing,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- marred,
- mock,
- morally polluted,
- nonobjective,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- partial,
- partisan,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pinchbeck,
- polluted,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- pretended,
- profligate,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- racist,
- reprobate,
- rotten,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- self-styled,
- sexist,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- split,
- sprung,
- spurious,
- steeped in iniquity,
- superpatriotic,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tainted,
- tendentious,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tortuous,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- unauthentic,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unneutral,
- unreal,
- unsymmetric,
- vice-corrupted,
- vitiated,
- xenophobic
- tinsel
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- a thread with glittering metal foil attached
- a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the tinsel of self-promotion"
- interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
- adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
- impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of Hollywood" related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bead,
- bejewel,
- beribbon,
- bespangle,
- blatant,
- blink,
- blinking,
- bogus,
- bravery,
- brazen,
- brummagem,
- cheat,
- chiffon,
- chintzy,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- coruscate,
- coruscation,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- diamond,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- engrave,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- falsified,
- feather,
- feigned,
- festoons,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figure,
- filigree,
- finery,
- firefly,
- flag,
- flashy,
- flounce,
- flower,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garbled,
- garish,
- garland,
- gaudery,
- gem,
- gilded,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- glaring,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- glisk,
- glisten,
- glister,
- glitter,
- glittering,
- glowworm,
- hoax,
- illegitimate,
- illuminate,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- jewel,
- junk,
- junky,
- loud,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meretricious,
- mock,
- ostensible,
- paint,
- paste,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plausible,
- plume,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queer,
- ribbon,
- rip-off,
- scintilla,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- seeming,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shimmer,
- shimmering,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangle,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- specious,
- spurious,
- stroboscopic light,
- superfluity,
- supposititious,
- swindle,
- synthetic,
- tawdry,
- tin,
- titivated,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- whited sepulcher,
- wreathe
- distorted
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- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affected,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anamorphous,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- astray,
- asymmetric,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bastard,
- bent,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- bogus,
- bowed,
- brummagem,
- catachrestic,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- cockeyed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contorted,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- deceptive,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- deformed,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disfigured,
- dispersed,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eisegetical,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- garbled,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illegitimate,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imitation,
- inflective,
- irregular,
- junky,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- marred,
- misapprehended,
- misconceived,
- misconstrued,
- misinterpreted,
- misread,
- mistaken,
- misunderstood,
- mock,
- nonsymmetric,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- one-sided,
- out,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- scattered,
- self-contradictory,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- skew,
- skewed,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- split,
- sprung,
- spurious,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tortuous,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unfactual,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unsymmetric,
- untrue,
- warped,
- wide,
- wrong
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
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- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- mimic
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- someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
- constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison
- imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" related words >
- Roscius,
- act,
- act a part,
- act as,
- act out,
- actor,
- actress,
- antagonist,
- ape,
- apish,
- appear like,
- approach,
- approximate,
- bad guy,
- barnstormer,
- be like,
- be redolent of,
- bear resemblance,
- bring to mind,
- burlesque,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- caricature,
- caricaturist,
- character,
- character actor,
- character man,
- character woman,
- child actor,
- come close,
- come near,
- compare with,
- conformist,
- copier,
- copy,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- correspond,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- diseur,
- diseuse,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- do,
- dramatizer,
- duplicate,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoic,
- echoist,
- emulative,
- enact,
- evoke,
- fake,
- faker,
- favor,
- feeder,
- feigned,
- foil,
- follow,
- forger,
- heavy,
- histrio,
- histrion,
- hit off,
- hit off on,
- hypocrite,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- imitative,
- imitator,
- impersonate,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- impressionist,
- ingenue,
- juvenile,
- lampoon,
- look like,
- make fun of,
- make-believe,
- masquerade as,
- match,
- matinee idol,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimetic,
- mimicker,
- mirror,
- mock,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- monkey,
- monologist,
- mum,
- mummer,
- near,
- nearly reproduce,
- not tell apart,
- onomatopoeic,
- onomatopoetic,
- pantomime,
- pantomimist,
- parallel,
- parodist,
- parody,
- parrot,
- partake of,
- pass for,
- perform,
- performer,
- personate,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- play,
- play a part,
- playactor,
- player,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- pose as,
- poseur,
- pretend to be,
- pretended,
- protean actor,
- reciter,
- remind one of,
- reproduce,
- resemble,
- ridicule,
- satirize,
- savor of,
- seem like,
- sham,
- sheep,
- simulate,
- simulated,
- simulative,
- simulator,
- smack of,
- soubrette,
- sound like,
- stack up with,
- stage performer,
- stage player,
- stooge,
- straight man,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- suggest,
- take after,
- take off,
- take off on,
- theatrical,
- thespian,
- travesty,
- trouper,
- utility man,
- villain
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