faux
/fəʊ/US/foʊ/
faux adjective: fake or artificial. Also the singular of fauces.
Adjective
faux (not comparable)
- Fake or artificial.
- He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
- Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392
- Antonyms:
- genuine
Proper noun capitalized: Faux
Faux (plural Fauxes)
- A surname.
Also used as
faux is also the singular of fauces.
Examples of faux in a sentence
- Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page 196:
- The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 07...
- Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times, archived...
Synonyms of faux
Antonyms
Forms of faux
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fauces |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fauxes |
Origin of faux
Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.
Either a variant of Faulks or borrowed from French Faux.
Words formed from faux
- fauxcellarm
- fauxcest
- faux Cyrillic
- fauxgasm
- faux gras
- fauxgressive
- fauxhawk
- fauxhemian
- fauxlanthropist
- fauxlex
- fauxligraphy
- fauxlography
- fauxmance
- fauxminist
- fauxmosexual
- fauxnetic
- Faux News
- fauxpen
- fauxpology
- faux queen
- fauxstalgia
- fauxtato
- fauxtatoes
- fauxthentic
- fauxtina
- fauxtism
- fauxtograph
- fauxtography
- fauxtomation
- sourfaux
Phrases with faux
Words that rhyme with faux
Questions about faux
- What does faux mean?
- Faux means fake or artificial.
- How do you use faux in a sentence?
- Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
- What part of speech is faux?
- Faux can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce faux?
- Faux is pronounced /fəʊ/ (UK).
Words near faux in the dictionary
Source and license
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