adjective. Being a usually inferior imitation or substitute; artificial.

adjective. Not genuine; fake.

adjective. Made in imitation; artificial, especially of an inferior quality.

noun. : Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.

adjective. artificial and inferior

noun. an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation

"I went back to the saucer and got one of the picnic blankets we'd taken from the spome, came back to the little pool and sat again, all wrapped up, looking out over ersatz cityscape, remembering that where my dad had taken German in college, Murray's dad had taken French, so Murray would say _faux, _ where I said _ersatz_."

artificial  unreal  

replacement  substitute  

Bree  Hawaiian  Sistine  easyall-american  free-flight  

affected  agent  alike  alternate  alternative