Synonyms and Antonyms of bogus
1
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
- for that price, you're only going to get furniture covered in bogus leather and not the real stuff
artificial, dummy, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic
cultured, manufactured, process
unauthentic
adulterated, designer, doctored, engineered, fudged, juggled, manipulated, tampered (with)
concocted, fabricated
counterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading, phony (also phoney)
affected, brummagem, feigned, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious
2
being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud
- the "designer" watches sold on the street are usually bogus
counterfeit, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, spurious, unauthentic
artificial, factitious, imitation, man-made, mimic, mock, simulated, substitute, synthetic
dummy, nonfunctioning, ornamental
cultured, fabricated, manufactured
deceptive, delusive, misleading
3
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
- there was often a lot of bogus conviviality at the company's parties
affected, artificial, assumed, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic
double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous
exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden
