Certified and Genuine

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Certified adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.

Usage example: presumably his chauffeured limousine qualifies him as certified big shot

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Genuine and certified are semantically related in authentic topic. In some cases you can use "Genuine" instead an adjective "Certified".

Nearby Words: certify, certification, certifiable, certifying

Genuine adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.

Usage example: had a genuine van Gogh hanging in their living room

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Certified and genuine are semantically related in authentic topic. Sometimes you can use "Certified" instead an adjective "Genuine".

Nearby Words: genuinely, genuineness

A character who figures out he's in a deceptive Lotus-Eater Machine might reject it on the basis that it's "not real," while a character rejecting a genuine Big Good certified Heaven knows that no truer happiness exists.

Source: Refusing Paradise
This was sometimes done for purely practical purposes: for a challenge involving a steam engine, for example, improvising a boiler would be near impossible and dangerous, so a few certified ones would be 'planted' amongst the genuine junk.

Source: Series / Scrapheap Challenge

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