Synonyms of the word postiche


POSTICHEATTIRE - COUNTERFEIT - DRESS - FAKE - FORGERY - GARB - HAIRPIECE - IMITATION - SHAM

postiche

  • n. Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.

attire

  • n. (clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
  • n. (heraldry) The single horn of a deer or stag.
  • v. To dress or garb.

counterfeit

  • adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
  • adj. Inauthentic.
  • adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
  • n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
  • n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  • n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
  • n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
  • v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
  • v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

fake

  • adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
  • adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
  • n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  • n. A trick; a swindle.
  • n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
  • v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
  • v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  • v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
  • n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
  • v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

forgery

  • n. The act of forging metal into shape.
  • n. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or…
  • n. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  • n. (archaic) An invention, creation.

garb

  • n. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • n. A type of dress or clothing.
  • n. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
  • v. (transitive) To dress in garb.
  • n. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
  • n. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

hairpiece

  • n. A false substitute for a person's hair; a toupee or wig.

imitation

  • n. The act of imitating.
  • n. A copy.
  • n. (attributive) not the real thing.

sham

  • adj. Intended to deceive; false.
  • adj. counterfeit; unreal.
  • n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
  • n. Trickery, hoaxing.
  • n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
  • n. A decorative cover for a pillow.
  • v. To deceive, cheat, lie.
  • v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
  • v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

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