Synonyms and Antonyms of simulated
1
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
- a simulated leopard skin rug
artificial, bogus, dummy, ersatz, factitious, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, 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
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
- the simulated friendliness in public of two politicians who can't stand each other in private
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, 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
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true
honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending
easy, effortless, smooth
extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
