gus, imitation, not genuine; fraudulent, fake, false, forged; supposititious, bastardly, pinchbeck, Australian, bunyip; meretricious, feigned, simulated, make-believe; left-handed, sham, flash, Sl. jive, Sl. hokey, Sl. phony-baloney; unreal, mock, ersatz, synthetic, plastic, jerry-built; artificial, factitious, contrived, fictitious; assumed, pseudo, Inf. put-on.
-n. 2. Informal, counterfeit, fake, forgery, two-dollar bill, wooden nickel, slug, funny money; cheat, swindle, Inf. put-on, Sl. ripoff; fraud, imposture, hoax, imposition; artifice, ruse, delusion, game.
3. faker, quack, charlatan, deceiver, mountebank, imposter, empiric, Australian, bunyip; feigner, poseur, pretender, imitator; counterfeiter, falsifier, copier, plagiarist.
phosphorescent, adj. luminous, radiant, bright, lu-culent, fulgent; luminescent, triboluminescent, electroluminescent, chemicoluminescent; shining, lustrous, luminiferous, rutilant, Biol, photogenic; fluorescent, luminal, tinseled, star-spangled, irradiate; sparkling, coruscating, scintillating, shimmery, shimmering, glimmering; twinkling, glistening, blinking, glittering.
photograph, n. 1. picture, image, Inf. photo, snapshot, Inf. shot, Inf. snap, Inf. candid; color print, photoprint, print, Trademark. Kodak, Trademark. Heliocrome; Trademark. Polaroid; slide, transparency, lantern slide, diapositive, frame, exposure, negative, positive; daguerrotype, tintype, collotype, calo-type, talbotype, photocollotype, plate; photogravure, Obs. heliogravure, rotogravure; portrait, glossy, matte, blowup, enlargement, reduction, Inf. pin-up, Sl. mug shot, Inf. close-up; copy, photostat, photocopy, facsimile, Trademark. Xerox or Xerox copy, -v. 2. take a picture, snap, kodak, shoot, film,
capture on film.
photographer, n. photographist, cinematographer, camera man, photog; snapshotter, daguerrotypist, calotypist, talbotypist; camera bug, Sl. shutterbug, Inf lensman, Sl. shooter, It. paparazzo.
photographic, adj. 1. pictorial, representing, representative, descriptive; photo, photosensitive, telephotographic, telephoto, photogenic.
2. detailed, realistic, lifelike, graphic; minute, exact, precise, typical; true to life, true to type, faithful, natural, close in all particulars.
phrase, n. 1. word group, unit, construction, term; clause, sentence, verse; portion, part, passage, excerpt; noun phrase, verb phrase, adverbial phrase, adjectival phrase.
2. phraseology, way of speaking, phrasing, manner of expression, mode of speaking; style, mode, manner, strain, mannerism, peculiarity; language, locution, words, wordage, verbiage, usage, choice of words; vocabulary, parlance, idiom, dialect; diction, speech, Inf. talk; colloquialism, regionalism, argot, slang, patois, jargon.
3. expression, saying, proverb, maxim, aphorism, gnome; epithet, saw, mot, prosaism, witticism, axiom, words of wisdom, sentence, stock saying; platitude, trite expression, clichd, banality, Inf bromide, Sl. chestnut; commonplace, triviality, hackneyed saying.
4. utterance, remark, saying; statement, comment, communication, pronouncement, declaration; mention, note, thought; Inf. two cents' worth, Sl. crack, Sl. shot; assertion, allegation, averment, asseveration, affirmation.
-v. 5. express, word, term, style, put, couch; frame, formulate, cast, put in words, clothe in words; pronounce, enunciate, accentuate.
6. remark, say, utter, mouth, voice, verbalize; relate, recite, tell, speak, make known, quote; deliver, present, impart, set out; mention, observe, note; convey, communicate, comment, parley, come out with; aver, asseverate, assert, state, declare, allege; pronounce, announce, sound, enounce.