Meaning & use
ersatz
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made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
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The camp served an ersatz coffee made mostly of chicory.
Critics dismissed the remake as an ersatz version of the original classic.
A note on using this word
Ersatz almost always carries a negative connotation, suggesting the substitute is noticeably inferior to the real thing.
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Words with an opposite meaning
genuineauthentic
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