fake

Pronunciation

• enPR: fāk, IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯k/

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Adjective

Positive fake

Comparative faker

Superlative fakest

Positive fake

Comparative more fake

Superlative most fake

1. Something which is fake is not real, false, or fraudulent.
   • Antonym: genuine

   Which fur coat looks fake?

Noun

Singular fake

Plural fakes

1. (countable) A fake is a trick; a swindle.
2. (countable) A fake is something that is not genuine, or is presented as real that is not real.

   That bill is a fake.

3. (countable) (sports) A fake is a move meant to deceive (trick) an opposing player.
4. (countable) (nautical) A fake is one of the circles or windings of a cable, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Verb

Plain form fake

Third-person singular fakes

Past tense faked

Past participle faked

Present participle faking

1. (intransitive) If you fake, you cheat, swindle, steal, or rob.
2. (transitive) If you fake something, you manipulate it fraudulently, so as to make it appear better or other than it is.
3. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge.
4. (transitive) If you fake something, you make a false display of it; you affect, feign, or simulate it.
5. (nautical) If you fake, you coil a rope or a wire, by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to stop it from becoming twisted.

Related words

• faker (noun)