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Counterfeit vs Misbegotten - What's the difference?

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Counterfeit is a related term of misbegotten.


As adjectives the difference between counterfeit and misbegotten

is that counterfeit is false, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine while misbegotten is (of a person).

As nouns the difference between counterfeit and misbegotten

is that counterfeit is a non-genuine article; a fake while misbegotten is .

As a verb counterfeit

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

counterfeit

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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.
  • Inauthentic.
    • counterfeit sympathy
  • Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
  • * Shakespeare
    • an arrant counterfeit rascal

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-genuine article; a fake.
  • *c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act II, scene 4:
    • Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit .
  • * Macaulay
    • Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
  • One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  • (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
  • * William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
    • Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
  • * 1590 Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
    • Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
  • (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
  • * c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act V, scene 4
    • I fear thou art another counterfeit ; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
    • to counterfeit the voice of another person
  • * Oliver Goldsmith, The Village Schoolmaster
    • Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
  • Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

    • misbegotten

    English

    Noun

  • .
  • circumstances.
  • * 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 161:
    • By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten ”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) .
  • (by extension, figuratively) .
  • * 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “ Cabin Boy” in :
    • Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

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    References

    * (OED)'' (3rd ed., June 2002), “ misbegotten, ''n. ''and'' adj. ” English adjectives ending in -en