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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024coun•ter•feit /ˈkaʊntɚˌfɪt/USA pronunciation adj. - made in imitation of something genuine with the intention of deceiving;
forged:a plot to make counterfeit money. - pretended;
unreal:counterfeit grief.
n. [countable] - an imitation intended to be used as genuine;
forgery:The expert held up the $20 bill and exclaimed, "It's an obvious counterfeit.''
v. - to make a counterfeit (of);
forge: [no object]guilty of counterfeiting.[~ + object]The crooks counterfeited five-dollar bills. - to pretend to have (an emotion, etc.):[~ + object]counterfeiting his grief for the benefit of the observers.
coun•ter•feit•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024coun•ter•feit (koun′tər fit′),USA pronunciation adj. - made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine;
not genuine;
forged:counterfeit dollar bills. - pretended;
unreal:counterfeit grief.
n. - an imitation intended to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine;
forgery. - [Archaic.]a copy.
- [Archaic.]a close likeness;
portrait. - [Obs.]impostor;
pretender.
v.t. - to make a counterfeit of;
imitate fraudulently;
forge. - to resemble.
- to simulate.
v.i. - to make counterfeits, as of money.
- to feign;
dissemble.
- Anglo-French cuntrefet, Old French contrefait, past participle of conterfere to copy, imitate, equivalent. to conter- counter- + fere to make, do Latin facere (see fact); (verb, verbal) Middle English countrefeten, verb, verbal derivative of countrefet
- (adjective, adjectival) Middle English countrefet false, forged 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spurious, bogus. See false.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sham, feigned, simulated, fraudulent; mock, fake, ersatz.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged falsification, sham.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged copy; falsify.
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