Synonyms for Phony:

• adj.

  •deceptive (adjective)
  • snide.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •fake, false (adjective)
  • counterfeit,
  • sham,
  • trick,
  • imitation,
  • forged,
  • spurious,
  • affected,
  • artificial,
  • pseudo,
  • assumed,
  • bogus.
  •false (adjective)
  • deceptive,
  • deceitful,
  • bogus,
  • untruthful,
  • fictional,
  • crooked,
  • fraudulent,
  • Truthless,
  • counterfeit,
  • false,
  • mendacious,
  • dishonest,
  • Deluding.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • fictional,
  • invented.
  •meretricious (adjective)
  • tinsel.
  •pretended (adjective)
  • assumed,
  • feigned.
  •spurious (adjective)
  • unauthentic.

• n.

  •
  • hollow.
  •
  • spurious,
  • suppositious,
  • synthetic,
  • supposititious,
  • fictitious.
  •
  • artificial,
  • feigned,
  • pretended,
  • insincere,
  • affected.
  •
  • two-faced,
  • pharisaic,
  • hypocritical,
  • sanctimonious,
  • pharisaical,
  • Pecksniffian.
  •affected (noun)
  • artificial.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • counterfeiter,
  • cheat,
  • fake,
  • fraud,
  • criminal,
  • deceiver,
  • con artist,
  • charlatan,
  • Defrauder,
  • imposter,
  • con man,
  • forger.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • playactor,
  • trickster,
  • hypocrite,
  • pharisee,
  • lip server,
  • tartuffe,
  • dissembler,
  • Dissimulator.
  •imitation (noun)
  • forgery.
  •impostor (noun)
  • impersonator.
  •liar (noun)
  • prevaricator.
  •phony (noun)
  • fake,
  • imitative,
  • counterfeit,
  • dissembler,
  • pretender,
  • hypocrite,
  • bogus,
  • phoney.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • grandiosity.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pharisaical,
  • rascal,
  • Pecksniffian,
  • tartuffe,
  • artificial.
  •
  • mountebank,
  • humbug,
  • pretended,
  • sanctimonious,
  • pharisaic,
  • pharisee,
  • hypocritical,
  • feigned,
  • two-faced,
  • spurious,
  • insincere,
  • quack.
  •feigned
  • affected.
  •imitate
  • copy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • snide,
  • false friend,
  • clinquant,
  • humbug,
  • inharmonious,
  • imitate,
  • ungenuine,
  • ripoff,
  • vicar,
  • mendacious,
  • phony-baloney,
  • tentative,
  • incorrect,
  • Titivated,
  • color,
  • allegation,
  • illusory,
  • forced,
  • hoaxer,
  • jive,
  • simulacrum,
  • provisional,
  • following,
  • feigned,
  • shoddy,
  • fill-in,
  • fabulous,
  • insincere,
  • copy,
  • deceit,
  • semblance,
  • alternate,
  • cuckoo,
  • favoring,
  • Pasticcio,
  • understudy,
  • Pietist,
  • inauthentic,
  • la-di-da,
  • plagiarist,
  • monkey,
  • agent,
  • plea,
  • change,
  • liar,
  • simulate,
  • mime,
  • guise,
  • copier,
  • junk,
  • imposture,
  • parrot,
  • mannered,
  • paste,
  • hokey,
  • sheep,
  • icon,
  • poll parrot,
  • Resembling,
  • pretense,
  • locum tenens,
  • mockingbird,
  • falsify,
  • represent,
  • paper-hanger,
  • duplicate,
  • imitator,
  • put-up job,
  • deputy,
  • homogeneous,
  • Falsified,
  • Mimicked,
  • pinch,
  • proxy,
  • dissemble,
  • not unlike,
  • identical,
  • utility player,
  • incredible,
  • Flam,
  • forged,
  • surface,
  • tinsel,
  • SPARES,
  • quasi,
  • quack,
  • caricature,
  • gaudy,
  • embroidered,
  • similar,
  • hoax,
  • imitative,
  • pretended,
  • mocker,
  • manipulate,
  • feign,
  • unbelievable,
  • phoney,
  • poseur,
  • front,
  • fictitious,
  • swindler,
  • ringer,
  • Counterfeited,
  • gyp,
  • unauthentic,
  • artificial,
  • spoof,
  • falsification,
  • DO,
  • spare,
  • pseudo,
  • suspect,
  • gloss,
  • ape,
  • playactor,
  • impostor,
  • brummagem,
  • prevaricator,
  • manmade,
  • infer,
  • illegitimate,
  • impersonator,
  • mala fide,
  • substitution,
  • exterior,
  • so-called,
  • secondary,
  • straw man,
  • cover,
  • something like,
  • vicarious,
  • hollow,
  • faker,
  • ersatz,
  • copyist,
  • pharisaical,
  • warped,
  • supposititious,
  • queer,
  • meretricious,
  • similitude,
  • Pecksniff,
  • sign,
  • apocryphal,
  • contrive,
  • invent,
  • perform,
  • dummy,
  • ironical,
  • juggler,
  • soi-disant,
  • bluff,
  • guess,
  • canter,
  • Echoer,
  • makeshift,
  • duplicity,
  • forgery,
  • double,
  • pharisee,
  • fourflusher,
  • actor,
  • metaphor,
  • faux,
  • smacking of,
  • left-handed,
  • synthetic,
  • sham,
  • plastic,
  • role player,
  • spurious,
  • performer,
  • Elusory,
  • rip off,
  • fabricated,
  • ghostwriter,
  • colored,
  • inconceivable,
  • suppose,
  • assumed,
  • picture,
  • token,
  • imitation,
  • comparison,
  • erroneous,
  • Mannerist,
  • grandiosity,
  • plagiarized,
  • bogus,
  • garbled,
  • invented,
  • exchange,
  • hypocrite,
  • equivalent,
  • swindle,
  • tin,
  • mimicker,
  • Quacksalver,
  • fair copy,
  • simulator,
  • misnamed,
  • echo,
  • poser,
  • misbegotten,
  • inaccurate,
  • Subdititious,
  • self-styled,
  • alternative,
  • symbol,
  • tartufe,
  • relief,
  • Imitated,
  • pinchbeck,
  • hollow man,
  • vice president,
  • pretender,
  • certified copy,
  • dissembler,
  • suspicious,
  • Formalist,
  • pretext,
  • mealy,
  • borrow,
  • man-made,
  • simulated,
  • surmise,
  • Pecksniffian,
  • tartuffe,
  • troublemaker,
  • surreptitious,
  • sanctimonious,
  • frame-up,
  • copied,
  • act,
  • vice-regent,
  • malingerer,
  • cheap,
  • Polly,
  • vindication,
  • mimic,
  • ghost writer,
  • unreal,
  • sophistic,
  • make-believe,
  • analogy,
  • lie,
  • mimer,
  • Dissimulator,
  • trickster,
  • snuffler,
  • pretension,
  • Double dealer,
  • untrue,
  • twisted,
  • sub,
  • pseud,
  • Aped,
  • slicker,
  • Whited Sepulchre,
  • factitious,
  • changeling,
  • bluffer,
  • excuse,
  • mealymouthed,
  • wrong,
  • stand-in,
  • ben trovato,
  • synecdoche,
  • construct,
  • concoct,
  • whited sepulcher,
  • replacement,
  • perverted,
  • Substituent,
  • succedaneum,
  • copycat,
  • dissimulating,
  • unfounded,
  • backup,
  • fair-weather friend,
  • representation,
  • metonymy,
  • phoniness,
  • conformist,
  • bastard,
  • sniveler,
  • personnel,
  • two-faced,
  • ghost,
  • fictive,
  • cheater,
  • pseudonymous,
  • put on,
  • embellished,
  • image,
  • believe,
  • facade,
  • bastardly,
  • Ectype,
  • execute,
  • pretend,
  • rascal,
  • mock,
  • resemblance,
  • surrogate,
  • equal,
  • not real,
  • behind ones back,
  • faked,
  • Colorable,
  • superseder,
  • lip server,
  • unctuous,
  • temporary,
  • reserves,
  • suggestive of,
  • trick,
  • commit,
  • charmer,
  • junky,
  • reserve,
  • stopgap,
  • Affecter,
  • alike,
  • supplanter,
  • pastiche,
  • mountebank,
  • fallacious,
  • utility,
  • portrait,
  • hypocritical,
  • deception,
  • representative,
  • like,
  • distorted,
  • man of straw,
  • exaggerate,
  • suppositious,
  • likeness,
  • untruthful,
  • Advocation,
  • unnatural,
  • Saltimbanco,
  • shammer,
  • substitute,
  • subterfuge,
  • fabricate,
  • affected,
  • pharisaic.

Antonyms for Phony:

• adj.

  • fake, false
    genuine, real, true, sincere, authentic.
  • Other antonyms:
    honest, genuine, impulsive, unprompted, unforced, actual, unstudied, ingenuous, open, easy, unaffected, right, natural, Undesigning, valid, smooth, realistic, unconscious, spontaneous, unrehearsed, uncontrived, bona fide, authentic, artless, forthright, heart-to-heart, unpretending, true, extemporaneous, sincere, plain, echt, unfeigned, straightforward, candid, heartfelt, direct, instinctive, impromptu, real, effortless, frank.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    ace, actual, adept, artless, authentic, authority, candid, crackerjack, easy, effortless, expert, extemporaneous, forthright, frank, genuine, heartfelt, honest, impromptu, impulsive, ingenuous, instinctive, maestro, master, open, original, past master, plain, professional, real, realistic, right, sincere, smooth, spontaneous, straightforward, unaffected, unconscious, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied, valid, virtuoso, whiz, wizard, Undesigning, heart-to-heart, unpretending, unfaked.