PHONY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
   Synonym(s)
   • dissembler (what does dissembler mean?)
   • hypocrite (what does hypocrite mean?)
   • phoney (what does phoney mean?)
   • pretender (what does pretender mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) phony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • deceiver (what does deceiver mean?)
   • cheat (what does cheat mean?)
   • cheater (what does cheater mean?)
   • trickster (what does trickster mean?)
   • beguiler (what does beguiler mean?)
   • slicker (what does slicker mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • smoothie (what does smoothie mean?)
   • smoothy (what does smoothy mean?)
   • sweet talker (what does sweet talker mean?)
   • charmer (what does charmer mean?)
   • Tartuffe (what does Tartuffe mean?)
   • Tartufe (what does Tartufe mean?)
   • whited sepulcher (what does whited sepulcher mean?)
   • whited sepulchre (what does whited sepulchre mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • feign (what does feign mean?)
   • sham (what does sham mean?)
   • pretend (what does pretend mean?)
   • affect (what does affect mean?)
   • dissemble (what does dissemble mean?)

PHONY as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • fraudulent
   • having a misleading appearance
   Synonym(s)
   • bastard (what does bastard mean?)
   • bogus (what does bogus mean?)
   • fake (what does fake mean?)
   • phoney (what does phoney mean?)
   Similar To
   • counterfeit (what does counterfeit mean?)
   • imitative (what does imitative mean?)