counterfeit

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “Finding out Irish people might have been slaves is kind of like finding a counterfeit bill where you're like, "You think I can use this for something?"”

2. (not-comparable)Inauthentic.

   “counterfeit sympathy”

   “How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]”

3. (not-comparable)Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.

   “an arrant counterfeit rascal”

noun

1. A non-genuine article; a fake.

   “Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.”

   “Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.”

   “‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.”

2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
3. (obsolete)That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

   “Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.”

   “Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.”

4. (obsolete)An impostor; a cheat.

   “I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.”

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To produce a faithful copy of.

   “The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To feign; to mimic.

   “to counterfeit the voice of another person”

   “Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.”

   “I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed.”

4. (transitive)Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.