counterfeit
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”). Piecewise doublet of contrafactum.
Inflected forms:
form: counterfeits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterfeits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterfeiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterfeited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterfeited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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?"
gloss: Inauthentic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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; […]
gloss: Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an arrant counterfeit rascal
gloss: A non-genuine article; a fake.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
gloss: One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
pos: noun
gloss: That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: An impostor; a cheat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
gloss: To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
gloss: To produce a faithful copy of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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,"
gloss: To feign; to mimic.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: anticounterfeit
counterfeitly
counterfeitment
counterfeitness
noncounterfeit
uncounterfeit
anticounterfeiting
counterfeitability
counterfeitable
counterfeitingly
uncounterfeited
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