Fool vs Counterfeit - What's the difference?

Fool is a related term of counterfeit.

As nouns the difference between fool and counterfeit

is that fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence while counterfeit is a non-genuine article; a fake.

As verbs the difference between fool and counterfeit

is that fool is to trick; to make a fool of someone while counterfeit is to falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

As an adjective counterfeit is

false, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.

fool

English

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

* Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

* Milton

Can they think me their fool or jester?

* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):

I'm a fool for the city.

(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.

an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool

A particular card in a tarot deck.

Synonyms

* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

Verb

To trick; to make a fool of someone.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

* Dryden

Is this a time for fooling ?

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

References

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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.