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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated]
2: reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character; "under simulated combat conditions"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1622 made to look genuine ; fake <simulated pearls>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Simulate Sim"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Simulating.] To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign. The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin. --Macaulay.

Moby Thesaurus

affected, alike, aped, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, consimilar, copied, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, favoring, feigned, fictitious, fictive, following, garbled, homogeneous, hypocritical, identical, illegitimate, imitated, imitation, junky, like, make-believe, man-made, mimicked, mock, nearly reproduced, not unlike, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, resembling, self-styled, sham, shoddy, similar, smacking of, so-called, soi-disant, something like, spurious, substitute, suggestive of, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, warped