Phony vs Artificial - What's the difference?
phony | artificial |
Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
As adjectives the difference between phony and artificial
is that phony is fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance while artificial is man-made; of artifice.As a noun phony
is a person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.phony
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Alternative forms
* phoneyAdjective
(er)- A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
Synonyms
* (fraudulent) bogus, counterfeit, fake * See alsoAntonyms
* authentic * genuineDerived terms
* phoniness * phoneynessNoun
(phonies)- He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony .
- He's such a phony , he doesn't believe half of what he says.
Synonyms
* (faker) dissembler, pretender, fake, fakerDerived terms
* phony up, phoney up * Phony War, Phoney Warartificial
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}
