Bogus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
  • adj. Undesirable or harmful.
  • adj. Incorrect, useless, or broken.
  • adj. Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
  • adj. Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
  • n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
  • n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An apparatus for coining counterfeit money.
  • Counterfeit; spurious; sham: originally applied in the United States to counterfeit money, but now to anything based on sham or false pretense: as, a bogus claim; a bogus government.
  • n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  • Equivalent
    Form
    bogotic    bogon    bogosity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spurious    fictitious    sham    pretended    broken    phony    illegal    fake    useless    incorrect   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    phony    fraudulent    valid    spurious    fake    credible    unfounded    counterfeit    specious    postal