factitious

• adulterated
• affected
• artful
• artificial
• assumed
• automatic
• bogus
• brummagem
• calculated
• canned
• concocted
• conscious
• contrived
• conventional
• counterfeit
• cultivated
• cultured
• cute
• cutesy
• deceptive
• deliberate
• designer
• doctored
• double-dealing
• dummy
• empty
• engineered
• ersatz
• exaggerated
• fabricated
• facile
• fake
• false
• faux
• feigned
• forced
• forged
• formal
• fraudulent
• fudged
• genteel
• goody-goody
• histrionic
• hokey
• hollow
• hypocritical
• imitation
• imitative
• impersonal
• inflexible
• insincere
• juggled
• labored
• left-handed
• man-made
• manipulated
• manufactured
• mealy
• mealymouthed
• mechanical
• melodramatic
• mimic
• mincing
• misleading
• mock
• overacted
• overdone
• overrefined
• pat
• phoney
• phony
• pinchbeck
• plastic
• premeditated
• pretend
• pretended
• process
• pseudo
• put-on
• rigid
• sham
• simpering
• simulated
• spurious
• stiff
• strained
• studied
• stylized
• substitute
• synthetic
• theatric
• theatrical
• two-faced
• unauthentic
• unctuous
• unnatural
• unreal
• unrealistic
• wooden

• artless
• authentic
• bona fide
• easy
• effortless
• extemporaneous
• genuine
• honest
• impromptu
• impulsive
• ingenuous
• instinctive
• legitimate
• natural
• premium
• pure
• quality
• real
• realistic
• right
• sincere
• smooth
• spontaneous
• true
• unadulterated
• unaffected
• unconscious
• uncontrived
• unfeigned
• unforced
• unpretending
• unprompted
• unrehearsed
• unstudied
• valuable

• adjective
  1. Created by humans; artificial.
  2. Counterfeit, fabricated, fake.

• The artist created a factitious environment in his surreal paintings.
• Her smile seemed factitious, masking the true emotions beneath the surface.
• The comedian's laughter appeared factitious, designed to entertain the audience.
• The politician's promises sounded factitious, lacking sincerity and genuine intent.
• The company's attempt at a cultural rebranding felt forced and factitious to many employees.

canned

• abolished
• aborted
• alcoholic
• annulled
• apish
• arrested
• artificial
• axed
• backup
• beery
• befuddled
• besotted
• bibulous
• blasted
• bleary-eyed
• blind
• blitzed
• blockaded
• blocked
• blotto
• bogus
• bombed
• boozy
• bottled
• bounced
• braked
• broke
• broke off
• broke up
• called
• cashiered
• ceased
• checked
• clamped down
• cockeyed
• completed
• concluded
• conserved
• copied
• counterfeit
• crapulous
• cribbed
• crocked
• cut off
• cut out
• cut-and-dried
• cut-and-dry
• dammed
• deactivated
• debauched
• deceptive
• delayed
• demolished
• destroyed
• detained
• dipsomaniacal
• discharged
• discontinued
• dismissed
• dissipated
• dissolute
• dissolved
• dopey
• dopy
• downsized
• dropped
• drunk
• drunken
• duplicated
• emulative
• ended
• epigonic
• epigonous
• excessed
• factitious
• fake
• false
• filmed
• finished
• fired
• forged
• formulaic
• fraudulent
• fried
• furloughed
• gassed
• gave over
• had done with
• halted
• hammered
• held
• held back
• high
• hindered
• imitation
• imitative
• impaired
• impeded
• in the bag
• inebriate
• inebriated
• intoxicated
• juiced
• kept
• kiboshed
• kicked out
• killed
• knocked off
• laid off
• left off
• lit
• lit up
• loaded
• looped
• man-made
• maudlin
• mimetic
• mimic
• misleading
• mock
• mustered out
• obstructed
• oiled
• paused
• perfunctory
• photocopied
• pickled
• pie-eyed
• pink-slipped
• plagiarized
• plastered
• potted
• prerecorded
• put the kibosh on
• quit
• quitted
• reduplicated
• released
• removed
• reproduced
• retired
• ripped
• rocky
• routine
• ruined
• sacked
• scuttled
• sent packing
• separated
• sham
• shut off
• simulated
• slavish
• sloshed
• smashed
• snuffed
• sottish
• soused
• sozzled
• squashed
• squelched
• squiffed
• squiffy
• stamped
• stanched
• staunched
• stayed
• stemmed
• stewed
• stiff
• stinking
• stoned
• stopped
• strung out
• stunted
• stupefied
• substitute
• suppressed
• suspended
• synthetic
• tanked
• taped
• terminated
• three sheets in the wind
• three sheets to the wind
• threw out
• tiddly
• tight
• tipsy
• transcribed
• trimmed
• turned back
• turned off
• under the influence
• under the weather
• uninspired
• unoriginal
• unseated
• wasted
• wet
• wiped out

fabricated

• a bit thick
• abstract
• ad-libbed
• affected
• allegorical
• amplified
• artificial
• assembled
• assumed
• baseless
• began
• beguiled
• bogus
• bouncing
• built
• bum
• came up with
• caricatural
• carpentered
• chimeric
• chimerical
• coined
• combined
• complete
• completed
• conceived
• concocted
• confected
• constituted
• constructed
• contrived
• counterfeit
• cozened
• crafted
• created
• cultivated
• daydreamed
• deceived
• deceptive
• defamed
• deluded
• designed
• devised
• dissembled
• dissimulated
• distorted
• done
• dreamed
• dreamt
• drummed up
• duped
• embroidered
• envisaged
• envisioned
• equivocated
• erected
• ersatz
• established
• exalted
• excessive
• excogitated
• extemporized
• extravagant
• fabled
• fabulous
• factitious
• faked
• fallacious
• false
• falsified
• famed
• fanciful
• fantasized
• fantastic
• fantastical
• farfetched
• fashioned
• fathered
• faux
• fibbed
• fictional
• fictitious
• fooled
• foreswore
• forged
• formed
• forswore
• foundationless
• founded
• framed
• fraudulent
• fudged
• garbled
• generated
• gratuitous
• groundless
• gulled
• hammered
• hammy
• handcrafted
• hatched
• hewed
• highly colored
• histrionic
• histrionical
• hoaxed
• hoodwinked
• hyperbolic
• idle
• illogical
• imaginary
• imagined
• imitation
• impossible
• improvised
• inaugurated
• industrial
• inflated
• initiated
• innovated
• instituted
• invented
• jerry-built
• kidded
• knocked out
• legendary
• libeled
• libelled
• lied
• machined
• made
• made up
• made-up
• magnified
• make believe
• make-believe
• man-made
• manufactured
• mass-produced
• mechanical
• melodramatic
• mendacious
• minted
• misguided
• misinformed
• misleading
• misled
• misreported
• misrepresented
• misstated
• mock
• molded
• mythic
• mythical
• mythologic
• mythological
• nonnatural
• not genuine
• off-base
• organized
• originated
• out of proportion
• overblown
• overdone
• overestimated
• overkill
• overwrought
• paltered
• perjured
• phony
• pictured
• pieced
• plastic
• prefabricated
• prepared
• preposterous
• pretend
• pretended
• pretentious
• prevaricated
• processed
• produced
• pseudo
• put together
• put up
• raised
• reared
• reassembled
• rebuilt
• reconstructed
• redeveloped
• reedified
• refashioned
• refined
• remade
• remanufactured
• reproduction
• retrofit
• retrofitted
• romanticized
• schmaltzy
• semilegendary
• sensational
• set up
• sham
• shaped
• simulated
• slandered
• snowed
• specious
• spectacular
• spurious
• steep
• storied
• strained
• structured
• stylized
• substitute
• synthetic
• tall
• threw up
• too much
• too-too
• took in
• tooled
• traduced
• tricked
• trumped up
• trumped-up
• uncalled-for
• united
• unjustified
• unnatural
• unproven
• unreal
• unrealistic
• unsubstantiated
• untrue
• untruthful
• unwarranted
• vain
• visioned
• visualized
• without basis
• without foundation

fake

• Janus-faced
• Pecksniffian
• act
• actor
• ad-lib
• adulterate
• adulterated
• affect
• affected
• artful
• artificial
• assume
• assumed
• automatic
• backhanded
• bastard
• bluff
• bluffer
• bogus
• brummagem
• bum
• calculated
• camouflage
• campy
• canned
• canting
• charlatan
• cheat
• claptrap
• conceal
• concoct
• concocted
• conscious
• contrive
• contrived
• conventional
• copy
• copycat
• counterfeit
• counterfeiter
• cozener
• crib
• cultivated
• cultured
• cute
• cutesy
• deceitful
• deceiver
• deception
• deceptive
• defrauder
• deke
• deliberate
• delusive
• designer
• devious
• devise
• disguise
• dishonest
• dissemble
• dissembler
• dissimulate
• doctor
• doctored
• dodge
• dodger
• double
• double-dealing
• double-faced
• duffer
• dummy
• duper
• duplicate
• empty
• engineered
• ersatz
• evade
• exaggerated
• extemporize
• fabricate
• fabricated
• fabrication
• facetious
• facile
• facsimile
• factitious
• fake out
• faker
• fakir
• false
• faux
• feign
• feigned
• feigner
• feint
• fictitious
• flimflam
• forced
• forge
• forged
• forgery
• formal
• four-flusher
• fraud
• fraudster
• fraudulent
• fudge
• fudged
• gaff
• genteel
• glib
• gold brick
• goody-goody
• hatch
• histrionic
• hoax
• hoaxer
• hokey
• hollow
• humbug
• hypocritical
• imitate
• imitation
• imitative
• imitator
• impersonal
• impersonate
• impersonator
• imposition
• imposter
• impostor
• imposture
• improvise
• inauthentic
• inflexible
• insincere
• invent
• invented
• jive
• jocular
• juggle
• juggled
• juke
• junque
• knockoff
• labored
• left-handed
• let on
• lip
• make believe
• make up
• malinger
• man-made
• manipulate
• manipulated
• manufacture
• manufactured
• mask
• masquerade
• mealy
• mealymouthed
• meaningless
• mechanical
• melodramatic
• mimic
• mincing
• misleader
• misleading
• mock
• mock-up
• mountebank
• nonfunctioning
• operator
• ornamental
• overacted
• overdone
• overrefined
• pat
• pharisaical
• phoney
• phoney-baloney
• phony
• phony-baloney
• pinchbeck
• pious
• plagiarize
• plant
• plastic
• play
• playact
• pose
• poseur
• premeditated
• pretend
• pretended
• pretender
• pretense
• process
• profess
• pseudo
• pump-fake
• put on
• put on an act
• put-on
• quack
• quacksalver
• queer
• reduplicate
• replica
• replicate
• reproduce
• reproduction
• rigid
• ringer
• sanctimonious
• scam
• scammer
• scamster
• self-righteous
• sham
• sharper
• sharpie
• sharpy
• shoddy
• sidestep
• simon-pure
• simpering
• simulate
• simulated
• simulation
• skinner
• sleight
• slip
• snide
• spoof
• spurious
• stiff
• strained
• studied
• stutter-step
• stylized
• substitute
• superficial
• swindle
• swindler
• synthetic
• theatric
• theatrical
• tongue-in-cheek
• trick
• trickster
• two-faced
• unauthentic
• unctuous
• unnatural
• unreal
• unrealistic
• untruthful
• wooden

faked

• Hollywood
• acted
• ad-lib
• ad-libbed
• adulterated
• affected
• alleged
• apish
• apocryphal
• apparent
• artificial
• assumed
• awkward
• bastard
• bent
• bluffed
• bogus
• brummagem
• bum
• camouflaged
• campy
• chichi
• chimerical
• claimed
• clear
• concealed
• conceited
• conceivable
• concocted
• contrived
• cooked-up
• copied
• counterfeit
• counterfeited
• created
• cribbed
• crock
• dashed off
• deceitful
• deceptive
• deked
• delusive
• delusory
• demonstrable
• devised
• disguised
• dishonest
• dissembled
• dissimulated
• distinct
• doctored
• dodged
• dummy
• duplicated
• ersatz
• evaded
• evident
• extemporaneous
• extempore
• extemporized
• external
• fabricated
• factitious
• fake
• faked out
• false
• fanciful
• fantastic
• fantastical
• fashioned
• feigned
• feinted
• fictional
• fictitious
• fictive
• figmental
• fishy
• fixed
• forged
• framed
• fraud
• fraudulent
• fudged
• gone Hollywood
• ham
• hammy
• hatched
• highfalutin
• hokey
• hollow
• hyped-up
• illegitimate
• illusive
• illusory
• imaginary
• imagined
• imitated
• imitation
• imitative
• impersonated
• improv
• improvised
• improviso
• insincere
• invented
• juggled
• juked
• la-di-da
• let on
• likely
• made
• made believe
• made up
• made-up
• make believe
• malingered
• manifest
• manipulated
• mannered
• manufactured
• masked
• masqueraded
• melodramatic
• mimic
• misleading
• mock
• mythical
• not genuine
• not kosher
• obvious
• off the cuff
• offhand
• ostensible
• ostensive
• ostentatious
• outward
• overdone
• pedantic
• phoney
• phonied
• phony
• pirate
• plagiarized
• plain
• plant
• planted
• plastic
• plausible
• playacted
• playacting
• played
• played by ear
• pompous
• posed
• possible
• precious
• presumed
• pretend
• pretended
• pretentious
• prima facie
• probable
• professed
• pseudo
• pump-faked
• purported
• put on
• put-on
• putative
• quasi
• reduplicated
• replicated
• reproduced
• reputed
• romantic
• schmaltzy
• seeming
• self-conscious
• set up
• shallow
• sham
• shammed
• shot from the hip
• sidestepped
• simulated
• slipped
• snide
• so-called
• soft-shell
• specious
• spontaneous
• spur-of-the-moment
• spurious
• stiff
• stilted
• studied
• stutter-stepped
• substitute
• superficial
• supposable
• supposed
• suppositious
• supposititious
• synthetic
• theatrical
• thrown off
• tossed off
• trumped-up
• twee
• two-faced
• unauthentic
• ungenuine
• unnatural
• unpremeditated
• unprepared
• unreal
• unscripted
• unstudied
• vamped
• visible
• whipped up
• winged
• wrong

false

• adulterated
• affected
• alloyed
• ambidextrous
• ambiguous
• amiss
• apathetic
• apocryphal
• apostate
• artful
• artificial
• askew
• assumed
• automatic
• awry
• backhanded
• base
• beguiling
• bent
• bewildering
• bogus
• brummagem
• bum
• calculated
• canned
• canting
• casuistic
• circuitous
• colored
• concocted
• confounding
• conscious
• contrary to fact
• contrived
• conventional
• cooked-up
• copied
• corrupt
• counterfactual
• counterfeit
• crafty
• crock
• crooked
• cultivated
• cultured
• cunning
• cute
• cutesy
• deceitful
• deceiving
• deceptive
• defrauding
• deliberate
• deluding
• delusive
• delusory
• designer
• devious
• disguised
• dishonest
• dishonorable
• disloyal
• dispassionate
• dissembling
• distorted
• distracting
• doctored
• double-dealing
• dubious
• dummy
• duplicitous
• empty
• engineered
• equivocal
• erroneous
• ersatz
• evasive
• exaggerated
• fabricated
• facile
• factitious
• faithless
• fake
• fallacious
• falsehearted
• faltering
• fanciful
• fast
• faulty
• faux
• feigned
• fickle
• fictitious
• fishy
• forced
• forged
• formal
• forsworn
• foul
• foxy
• framed
• fraudulent
• fudged
• genteel
• goody-goody
• guileful
• hesitant
• histrionic
• hokey
• hollow
• hypocritical
• illusive
• illusory
• imaginary
• imitation
• imitative
• impersonal
• improper
• inaccurate
• inauthentic
• inconstant
• incorrect
• inexact
• inflexible
• insidious
• insincere
• invalid
• invented
• irresolute
• irresponsible
• jive
• juggled
• knavish
• labored
• left-handed
• lying
• made-up
• make believe
• malevolent
• malicious
• man-made
• manipulated
• manufactured
• mealy
• mealymouthed
• mean
• mechanical
• melodramatic
• mendacious
• meretricious
• mimic
• mincing
• misleading
• misrepresentative
• mistaken
• mock
• mythomaniac
• nonfunctioning
• off
• off base
• off the mark
• ornamental
• ostensible
• overacted
• overdone
• overrefined
• pat
• perfidious
• perjured
• perplexing
• phoney
• phony
• pinchbeck
• plastic
• premeditated
• pretend
• pretended
• process
• pseudo
• put-on
• puzzling
• queer
• rascally
• recreant
• renegade
• rigid
• scoundrelly
• seeming
• shady
• sham
• shifty
• simpering
• simulated
• slick
• sly
• sneaking
• sneaky
• snide
• so-called
• sophistical
• specious
• spurious
• stiff
• strained
• studied
• stylized
• substitute
• subtile
• subtle
• synthetic
• theatric
• theatrical
• traitorous
• treacherous
• treasonable
• trick
• trickish
• tricky
• trumped-up
• trustless
• two-faced
• unauthentic
• uncertain
• unconfirmed
• unctuous
• undependable
• underhand
• underhanded
• unfaithful
• unfounded
• uninterested
• unnatural
• unproven
• unreal
• unrealistic
• unreliable
• unscrupulous
• unsound
• untested
• untrue
• untrustworthy
• untruthful
• vacillating
• venal
• villainous
• wavering
• wicked
• wily
• wooden
• wrong

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