faker

The word “faker” has 2 syllables: fak-er

It's pronounced as /ˈfeɪkər/


What is synonym and antonym for faker?

In the thesaurus, “faker” has 47 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for faker along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for faker

  • actor
  • bluffer
  • charlatan
  • coiner
  • copycat
  • counterfeiter
  • cozener
  • deceiver
  • defrauder
  • dissembler
  • dodger
  • duper
  • fabricator
  • fake
  • fakir
  • feigner
  • forger
  • fraud
  • fraudster
  • hoaxer
  • humbug
  • imitator
  • impersonator
  • imposter
  • impostor
  • liar
  • mimic
  • misleader
  • mountebank
  • operator
  • phoney
  • phony
  • poseur
  • pretender
  • quack
  • quacksalver
  • ringer
  • scammer
  • scamster
  • sham
  • shammer
  • sharper
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • skinner
  • swindler
  • trickster

Antonyms for faker

  • ace
  • adept
  • authority
  • crackajack
  • crackerjack
  • expert
  • maestro
  • master
  • past master
  • professional
  • virtuoso
  • whiz
  • wizard

Meanings of faker

  • noun
    1. One who fakes something.
    2. An impostor or impersonator.
    3. A thief.
    4. A peddler of petty things.
    5. A workman who dresses things up.

Example Sentences

  • The jury saw through the defendant's lies and labeled him a faker.
  • The athlete was accused of being a faker after feigning an injury to waste time during the game.
  • Don't be fooled by his charm, he's a notorious faker who pretends to be something he's not.
  • The detective exposed the identity of the art forger, revealing him as a skilled faker.
  • Her colleagues quickly realized she was a faker when they caught her pretending to be an expert in a subject she knew little about.

On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to faker, such as: ace, actor, adept, authority, bluffer, charlatan, coiner.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

falsification

  • act
  • acting
  • adulteration
  • affectation
  • ambiguity
  • appearance
  • appropriation
  • artifice
  • aspersion
  • backbiting
  • barbarism
  • betrayal
  • bluff
  • bogus
  • borrowing
  • calumniation
  • calumny
  • canard
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • charade
  • cheat
  • claim
  • cloak
  • cock-and-bull story
  • coining
  • coloring
  • copy
  • counterfeiting
  • cribbing
  • debasement
  • decay
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • defamation
  • defilement
  • detraction
  • dishonesty
  • disinformation
  • disloyalty
  • display
  • dissimulation
  • distortion
  • doctoring
  • double-dealing
  • dumb act
  • equivocation
  • evasion
  • exaggeration
  • excuse
  • fable
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • fairy tale
  • fake
  • fakery
  • faking
  • fallacy
  • false light
  • false oath
  • false swearing
  • false testimony
  • false-heartedness
  • falsehood
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • feigning
  • fib
  • fiction
  • forgery
  • foulness
  • fraud
  • fraudulence
  • gag
  • guile
  • guise
  • half-truth
  • humbug
  • hyperbole
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • inaccuracy
  • infection
  • infidelity
  • infringement
  • insincerity
  • invention
  • jive
  • libel
  • lie
  • lifting
  • literary theft
  • lookalike
  • lying
  • make believe
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mendacity
  • misconception
  • misinformation
  • misreport
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • nonsense
  • not a true picture
  • noxiousness
  • obliquity
  • obloquy
  • ostentation
  • oversimplification
  • perfidiousness
  • perfidy
  • perjury
  • phony
  • piracy
  • pollution
  • pose
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • pseudo
  • putrefaction
  • putrescence
  • revilement
  • reviling
  • rot
  • rottenness
  • routine
  • ruse
  • schtick
  • semblance
  • sham
  • shuffling
  • simulation
  • slander
  • slant
  • solecism
  • stall
  • stealing
  • story
  • stretch
  • stunt
  • subterfuge
  • tale
  • tall story
  • taradiddle
  • tarradiddle
  • theft
  • traitorousness
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • twin
  • twist
  • unfaithfulness
  • untruth
  • untruthfulness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • vilification
  • white lie
  • whopper
  • wile
  • workalike

jive

  • BS
  • Charleston
  • Dixieland
  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • absurdity
  • act
  • adulation
  • advertise
  • affect
  • affected
  • aggrandize
  • alibi
  • allege
  • allusion
  • amuse
  • annoy
  • answer
  • apologetics
  • apologia
  • apologizing
  • apology
  • applause
  • applesauce
  • approbation
  • argot
  • argument
  • artfulness
  • artifact
  • artifice
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • attract attention
  • babble
  • backhanded
  • badger
  • badinage
  • bait
  • balderdash
  • baloney
  • bamboozle
  • bamboozlement
  • bananas
  • banter
  • be at
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • bebop
  • bedevil
  • beg the question
  • beguile
  • beleaguer
  • belie
  • bend
  • betray
  • bias
  • bilk
  • bill of goods
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blather
  • blow
  • blow hot and cold
  • blow smoke
  • blues
  • bluff
  • bluster
  • boast
  • bogus
  • bombast
  • bon mot
  • boogie
  • boogie down
  • boogie-woogie
  • boondoggle
  • bootlicking
  • bop
  • bother
  • buckle
  • bull
  • bully
  • bunco
  • bunk
  • bunkum
  • bunny hop
  • bureaucratese
  • burlesque
  • burn
  • buzz
  • caboodle
  • cajolery
  • campy
  • cant
  • canting
  • caricature
  • caricaturize
  • cartoon
  • catch
  • cavil
  • chaff
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • chitchat
  • chouse
  • circumvent
  • circumvention
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • claptrap
  • cleanup
  • clip
  • cloud the issue
  • cock-a-doodle-doo
  • coin
  • colloquial
  • colloquialism
  • colloquy
  • coloring
  • come-off
  • commendation
  • comment
  • common
  • communication
  • communion
  • computerese
  • con
  • con game
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence game
  • conga
  • congratulate oneself
  • consultation
  • contortion
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • converse
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cop-out
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover story
  • cover up
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cozen
  • cozening
  • crack
  • crack wise
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crap
  • craziness
  • create fiction
  • crock
  • crookedness
  • crow
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cut a rug
  • cyberspeak
  • debate
  • deceit
  • deceitful
  • deceive
  • deception
  • decoy
  • defense
  • deflate
  • defraud
  • delude
  • demotic
  • deride
  • device
  • devil
  • devious
  • devise
  • dialect
  • dialectal
  • diddle
  • dirty dealing
  • dirty pool
  • dirty trick
  • dirty work
  • disco
  • discussion
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dishonesty
  • disinform
  • dissemblance
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • distort
  • disturb
  • ditch
  • divert
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do number on
  • do out of
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • dog
  • double
  • double-cross
  • double-deal
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • double-talk
  • drivel
  • duck
  • dupe
  • duplicity
  • educationese
  • elaborate explanation
  • elude
  • elusion
  • embezzle
  • empty
  • empty talk
  • encomium
  • entertain
  • equivocate
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • escape
  • eschew
  • eschewal
  • eulogy
  • evade
  • evading
  • evasion
  • evasiveness
  • everyday
  • exaggerate
  • exaggeration
  • exchange
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • excusing
  • exoneration
  • expedient
  • explaining
  • expose
  • expression
  • extenuation
  • exult
  • eyewash
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fairy story
  • fake
  • fake out
  • fakery
  • fallacy
  • false
  • false front
  • falsehood
  • falsify
  • fancy footwork
  • farce
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • fatuity
  • fawning
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feint
  • fence
  • fib
  • fiction
  • figment
  • fish
  • fish story
  • fix
  • flapdoodle
  • flatter oneself
  • flattering
  • flaunt
  • fleece
  • fleer
  • flightiness
  • flimflam
  • flip-flop
  • flourish
  • flout
  • flummery
  • foil
  • folly
  • fool
  • foolery
  • foolishness
  • foot it
  • forced
  • forge
  • forgery
  • form
  • foul play
  • fox
  • foxtrot
  • frame
  • fraud
  • frolic
  • fudge
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fulsomeness
  • fun
  • funny
  • fusion jazz
  • futile talk
  • gab
  • gag
  • gallantry
  • gambol
  • game
  • garbage
  • garble
  • gasconade
  • get down
  • gibberish
  • gibe
  • giddiness
  • gimmick
  • gird
  • give a good account of oneself
  • give a hard time
  • give the runaround
  • glib
  • gloat
  • glory
  • gnaw
  • goad
  • gobbledygook
  • goof on
  • gossip
  • governmentese
  • grandstand
  • grapevine
  • grounds
  • gull
  • hanky-panky
  • harass
  • harry
  • haze
  • hearing
  • hearsay
  • hector
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hint
  • hoax
  • hoaxing
  • hocus-pocus
  • hogwash
  • hokum
  • hollow
  • hollow words
  • honeyed words
  • hoodwink
  • hooey
  • hop
  • horse around
  • hot air
  • hot jazz
  • hot-dog
  • hug oneself
  • humbug
  • humiliate
  • hustle
  • hypocrisy
  • hypocritical
  • hypocritical respect
  • hypocriticalness
  • idiocy
  • idiom
  • idiomatic
  • idle talk
  • illogicality
  • illogicalness
  • illude
  • illusion
  • imitation
  • impersonate
  • importune
  • impose on
  • impose upon
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improbability
  • improvisational music
  • imprudence
  • inanity
  • incongruity
  • ingratiation
  • innuendo
  • insanity
  • insincere
  • insincerity
  • insinuation
  • intercourse
  • intorsion
  • invent
  • invention
  • irrationality
  • jabber
  • jape
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jazz
  • jeer
  • jest
  • jibe
  • jig
  • jitter
  • jitterbug
  • jocular
  • joke
  • jolly
  • josh
  • journalese
  • juggle
  • juke
  • jump
  • justification
  • kid
  • kid around
  • lampoon
  • language
  • laud
  • laugh
  • laugh at
  • lay claim
  • lay on thick
  • lead on
  • lead up garden path
  • leap
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lie
  • line
  • lingo
  • lip
  • lip devotion
  • lip homage
  • lip praise
  • lip reverence
  • lip worship
  • localism
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • make a fool of
  • make a game of
  • make a laughingstock
  • make believe
  • make fun of
  • make like
  • make merry
  • make out
  • make up
  • makeshift
  • malarkey
  • malconformation
  • malformation
  • malinger
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • milk
  • mimic
  • mince words
  • misguide
  • misinterpretation
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misrepresentation
  • misshape
  • misspeak
  • misstatement
  • misuse
  • mitigation
  • mock
  • mockery
  • monologue
  • mousetrap
  • mouth
  • mouth honor
  • mouthing
  • mumbo jumbo
  • mush
  • mutilation
  • myth
  • needle
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • nudge
  • number
  • obliqueness
  • obsequiousness
  • observation
  • off-time
  • one-liner
  • one-step
  • opus
  • outfox
  • outwit
  • palaver
  • palter
  • pan
  • parlance
  • parley
  • parody
  • parry
  • pass off
  • pass oneself off as
  • pass the buck
  • pat oneself on the back
  • patois
  • patter
  • persiflage
  • perversion
  • pester
  • pharisaical
  • pharisaism
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phoniness
  • phony
  • phony up
  • phony-baloney
  • pick on
  • pidgin
  • piffle
  • pilfer
  • pillow talk
  • pious
  • pitch
  • plague
  • plant
  • plaudits
  • play
  • play a trick on
  • play for a fool
  • play the clown
  • play trick on
  • play tricks
  • play-act
  • plea
  • pleasantry
  • poke fun
  • poke fun at
  • pooh-pooh
  • poppycock
  • popular
  • prank
  • prate
  • prattle
  • preen
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • pretty speech
  • prevaricate
  • prevarication
  • profess
  • promenade
  • promote
  • prose
  • provincialism
  • psych
  • psych out
  • puff
  • puffery
  • pull fast one
  • pull wool over
  • purport
  • pussyfoot
  • put down
  • put on
  • put one over on
  • put up a front
  • put-on
  • questioning
  • quibble
  • quip
  • quiz
  • racket
  • rag
  • ragtime
  • rail at
  • raillery
  • rally
  • ranting
  • rashness
  • rationalization
  • razz
  • regionalism
  • regrets
  • rejoinder
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reply
  • report
  • response
  • retort
  • return
  • revel
  • rhumba
  • rib
  • rib-tickler
  • ride
  • ridicule
  • ridiculousness
  • rigmarole
  • rip off
  • ripoff
  • roast
  • rob
  • rodomontade
  • rook
  • rot
  • routine
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • run around
  • run down
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • sales talk
  • sally
  • samba
  • sanctimonious
  • satirize
  • scam
  • scoff
  • scorn
  • scout
  • scrawl
  • scribble
  • scuttlebutt
  • self-righteous
  • sell
  • sellout
  • semblance
  • send up
  • senselessness
  • set up
  • shady deal
  • shaft
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shell game
  • shift
  • shilly-shally
  • shirking
  • shoot
  • shop
  • shoptalk
  • shovel
  • show off
  • show up
  • showboat
  • shuck
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • sidestep
  • silliness
  • simon-pure
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • sit on the fence
  • slam
  • slang
  • slanguage
  • slant
  • sling
  • small talk
  • smoke
  • smooth talk
  • snap
  • snare
  • sneer
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • song
  • song and dance
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak with forked tongue
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spin
  • spoof
  • sport
  • stab in the back
  • stall
  • step
  • stick
  • sting
  • stonewall
  • stopgap
  • story
  • strained
  • stratagem
  • street
  • stretch the truth
  • string along
  • stroking
  • strut
  • stultiloquence
  • stunt
  • stupidity
  • substitute
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • sucker into
  • superficial
  • swagger
  • sweet-talk
  • swindle
  • swing
  • swipe at
  • sycophancy
  • take
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take off
  • take the mickey out of
  • take to the cleaners
  • takeoff
  • talk
  • talk big
  • talkfest
  • tall story
  • tango
  • tantalize
  • tap
  • taunt
  • tease
  • technobabble
  • tell a little white lie
  • tell white lie
  • temporize
  • tergiversate
  • tergiverse
  • terminology
  • the business
  • thoughtlessness
  • toadyism
  • token agreement
  • tokenism
  • tomfoolery
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • torment
  • torture
  • trap
  • trash
  • travesty
  • treachery
  • tribute
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • trifle
  • trip the light fantastic
  • tripe
  • triumph
  • truckling
  • trump up
  • twaddle
  • twist
  • twistedness
  • twit
  • two-faced
  • two-step
  • unctuous
  • unctuousness
  • unmask
  • unnatural
  • unreasonableness
  • untruth
  • untruthful
  • useless words
  • vapor
  • vaunt
  • ventilation
  • vernacular
  • vernacularism
  • vex
  • victimize
  • vindication
  • visit
  • vocabulary
  • waffle
  • waltz
  • warp
  • weasel
  • whitewash
  • why and wherefore
  • wile
  • wiliness
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • work
  • worry
  • wrinkle
  • wrong
  • yak
  • yarn
  • yuck
  • yuk

faking

  • act
  • acting
  • ad-libbing
  • adulterating
  • affectation
  • affecting
  • appearance
  • artifice
  • assuming
  • beard
  • blind
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • camouflage
  • camouflaging
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • charade
  • cheat
  • claim
  • cloak
  • coining
  • color
  • coloring
  • concealing
  • concealment
  • concocting
  • contriving
  • copy
  • costume
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cribbing
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deceptive marking
  • dekeing
  • devising
  • disguise
  • disguising
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • dissimulation
  • doctoring
  • dodging
  • double-dealing
  • dress
  • dumb act
  • duplicating
  • evading
  • evasion
  • excuse
  • extemporizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • face
  • fake
  • fakery
  • faking out
  • false appearance
  • false front
  • falsification
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fig leaf
  • forging
  • fraudulence
  • front
  • fudging
  • gag
  • getup
  • guise
  • hatching
  • illusion
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • improvising
  • insincerity
  • inventing
  • invention
  • juggling
  • juking
  • letting on
  • lookalike
  • make believe
  • making believe
  • making up
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • manufacturing
  • mask
  • masking
  • masquerade
  • masquerading
  • mimicry
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • paint
  • pen name
  • phony
  • phonying
  • plagiarizing
  • plain brown wrapper
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • professing
  • protective coloring
  • pseudo
  • pseudonym
  • pump-faking
  • put on
  • putting on
  • red herring
  • reduplicating
  • replicating
  • reproducing
  • routine
  • ruse
  • schtick
  • screen
  • semblance
  • shade
  • sham
  • shamming
  • shroud
  • shuffling
  • sidestepping
  • simulating
  • simulation
  • slipping
  • smokescreen
  • stall
  • stunt
  • stutter-stepping
  • subterfuge
  • trickery
  • twin
  • veil
  • veneer
  • wile
  • workalike

sanctimoniousness

  • affectation
  • affectedness
  • artificiality
  • bad faith
  • bigotry
  • cant
  • casuistry
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • dishonesty
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • fakery
  • false profession
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fraud
  • fraudulentness
  • glibness
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • irreverence
  • lie
  • lip service
  • mockery
  • oiliness
  • perfidy
  • pharisaicalness
  • pharisaism
  • phoniness
  • pietism
  • piousness
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • quackery
  • sanctimony
  • self-righteousness
  • self-satisfaction
  • shamming
  • smoothness
  • speciousness
  • tartuffery
  • two-facedness
  • unctuousness

quackery

  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • dirty pool
  • dirty tricks
  • dishonesty
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • fakery
  • foxiness
  • gamesmanship
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • humbuggery
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • jiggery-pokery
  • jugglery
  • legerdemain
  • misrepresentation
  • oiliness
  • plotting
  • pretense
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stealth
  • subterfuge
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wile
  • wiliness

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