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Fake vs Ingenuine - What's the difference?

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Ingenuine is a antonym of fake.

Ingenuine is a synonym of fake.



As adjectives the difference between fake and ingenuine

is that fake is not real; false, fraudulent while ingenuine is false, not genuine or authentic.

As a noun fake

is something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

As a verb fake

is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

fake

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Not real; false, fraudulent.
    • Which fur coat looks fake ?
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * genuine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  • A trick; a swindle.
  • (soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
    • Synonyms
    * (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) deke

    Verb

    (fak)
  • To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
  • To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
  • To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  • To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
    • Synonyms
    * (To modify fraudulently) adulterate * (To make a false display) pass off, pose
    Derived terms
    * fake out * faker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

    • Verb

    (fak)
  • (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

    • ingenuine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • false, not genuine or authentic.
  • * 1993 , Sam Kirscher, Working with Adult Incest Survivors: The Healing Journey (page 81)
    • This description of the female therapist may have been a transferential distortion, an accurate reading of an ingenuine therapeutic stance, or both.
  • * 1995 , J. P. Telotte, Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film (page 164)
    • Yet those accomplishments may well be forged, that is, a bit ingenuine , since, as our films must inevitably do, they leave the very forces of repression intact

    Synonyms

    * ungenuine * false * fake * See also

    Antonyms

    * genuine * authentic * real * natural * true English words prefixed with in-