counterfeit

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   False, especially of money

   False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.

   • This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
   • Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"
2. 2

   Inauthentic.

   • counterfeit sympathy
   • How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]
3. 3

   Assuming the appearance of something

   Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.

   • an arrant counterfeit rascal
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   1. 4

      A non-genuine article

      A non-genuine article; a fake.

      • Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.
      • Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
   2. 5

      One who counterfeits

      One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.

   3. 6

      That which resembles another thing

      That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

      • Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
      • Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
   4. 7

      An impostor

      An impostor; a cheat.

      • I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
   5. 8

      To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid

      To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

      • to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
   6. 9

      To produce a faithful copy of.

      • The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"
   7. 10

      To feign

      To feign; to mimic.

      • to counterfeit the voice of another person
      • Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
      • I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed.
   8. 11

      Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the…

      Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

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