Word Study
forged
CIDE DICTIONARY
forged, adj.
- Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents. See forge,
v. t. , 4. [WordNet 1.5] - shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; -- of metal objects."Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort." [PJC]
THESAURUS
forged
assembled, built, cast, concocted, constructed, cooked-up, counterfeit, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, ersatz, extracted, fabricated, fabulous, fake, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned, fictional, fictitious, figmental, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, hatched, hokey, homemade, homespun, imitation, invented, legendary, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, made-up, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, mock, molded, mythical, phony, plagiarized, prefab, prefabricated, processed, pseudo, put together, put-up, quasi, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, sham, shaped, smelted, synthetic, trumped-up, well-built, well-constructed, well-madeROGET THESAURUS
forged
Untruth
N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.For further exploring for "forged" in Webster Dictionary Online