| 单词 | counterfeit |
| 释义 | counterfeit (once / 1141 pages) adjnv A counterfeit is a fake or a forgery. If you painted an uncanny copy of the "Mona Lisa" and tried to pass it off as the original, you'd have a counterfeit on your hands. An exact imitation of anything — a work of art, a ten dollar bill — is a counterfeit, and the act of creating the fake copy is the verb to counterfeit. You can also describe the forgery using the adjective form of counterfeit: a counterfeit Rolex watch. In Old French, the word contre, "counter or against", together with the word faire, "to make," joined together to mean "to make in imitation," which led to our counterfeit. WORD FAMILYcounterfeit: counterfeited, counterfeiter, counterfeiting, counterfeitly, counterfeits+/counterfeiter: counterfeiters USAGE EXAMPLESBut many of those areas didn’t hold the high-value artifacts prized by collectors, fueling a rise in an industry of counterfeit antiquities. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) “In and of itself, it can’t end black money, stop terrorism funding and the counterfeiting of notes.” Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Prosecutors said they used stolen credit card numbers to create counterfeit credit cards that they used for purchases and cash advances in north Alabama. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj not genuine; imitating something superior counterfeit emotion counterfeit money counterfeit works of art a counterfeit prince Syn|Ant imitative assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham adopted in order to deceive bad, forgedreproduced fraudulently basedebased; not genuine bastard, bogus, fake, phoney, phonyfraudulent; having a misleading appearance inauthentic, spurious, unauthenticintended to deceive mockconstituting a copy or imitation of something ostensible, ostensiverepresented or appearing as such; pretended pinchbeckserving as an imitation or substitute pseudo(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of syntheticnot genuine or natural artificial, unrealcontrived by art rather than nature unreallacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria insincerelacking sincerity falsenot in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality echt, genuine not fake or counterfeit authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritablenot counterfeit or copied attested, authenticated, documentedestablished as genuine good, honestnot forged honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough(used informally especially for emphasis) honest, honorablenot disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent existent, realbeing or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory sincereopen and genuine; not deceitful trueconsistent with fact or reality; not false 2n a copy that is represented as the original Syn|Hyper forgery imitation something copied or derived from an original 3v make a copy of with the intent to deceive they counterfeited dollar bills Syn|Hyper fake, forge re-create create anew |
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