genuine

  • (a) not fake or counterfeit
    • a genuine Picasso
    • genuine leather
    echt,
  • (s) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
    • genuine emotion
    • her interest in people was unfeigned
    • true grief
    unfeigned, true,
  • (s) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
    • her actual motive
    • "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton
    • a genuine dilemma
    literal, actual, real,

Synonyms

echt unfeigned true literal actual real

Antonyms

counterfeit imitative

See also

honest honorable real existent sincere true

Words of close approximity

genuinely genuineness