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FAKER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: faker   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

Synonyms:

fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("faker" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faker"):

name dropper (someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends)

ringer (a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses)

Derivation:

fake (speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths)

fake (tamper, with the purpose of deception)

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