ersatz (n.)
- agent
- alike
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- backup
- bastard
- brummagem
- change
- changeling
- colored
- comparison
- copy
- counterfeit
- deputy
- double
- dummy
- equal
- equivalent
- exchange
- fake
- fill-in
- following
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- hokey
- illegitimate
- imitation
- junky
- like
- make-believe
- makeshift
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mock
- personnel
- phony
- pinch
- pinchbeck
- proxy
- pseudo
- put-on
- queer
- relief
- replacement
- representative
- reserve
- reserves
- ringer
- secondary
- sham
- shoddy
- sign
- simulacrum
- spare
- stand-in
- stopgap
- sub
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- supplanter
- surrogate
- symbol
- synecdoche
- synthetic
- temporary
- tin
- tinsel
- token
- understudy
- utility
- vicar
- vice-regent
ersatz (adj.)
- affected
- alike
- alternate
- alternative
- aped
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bastard
- bogus
- brummagem
- change
- colored
- counterfeit
- distorted
- double
- dummy
- embellished
- equal
- equivalent
- factitious
- fake
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fictive
- following
- forged
- garbled
- hokey
- homogeneous
- identical
- illegitimate
- imitation
- like
- make-believe
- makeshift
- man-made
- mock
- personnel
- perverted
- phony
- pinchbeck
- plagiarized
- pretended
- provisional
- pseudo
- quasi
- queer
- representative
- secondary
- self-styled
- sham
- shoddy
- sign
- similar
- simulated
- so-called
- soi-disant
- spare
- spurious
- substitute
- supposititious
- surrogate
- synthetic
- temporary
- tentative
- tin
- token
- twisted
- unauthentic
- unnatural
- unreal
- utility
- vicarious
- warped
