Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that simulates; a pretender.
  • adjective Simulated; sham.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Practising simulation; feigning; deceiving.
  • Simulated or assumed; counterfeit; false.
  • noun One who simulates or feigns anything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
  • adjective R. & Obs. False; specious; counterfeit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete, rare false; specious; counterfeit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin simulāre, to simulate; see simulate.]

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