📚 Ersatz, adjective. 🔉 /ˈəːsats/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else. ❗️ Examples: 1. Ersatz coffee. 2. The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’. 3. It is a sort of ersatz substitute for the hope of heaven. 4. So, instead of entering the dark, airless fug that was Swansea's top coffee shop, I grabbed a take-out burger and ersatz coffee from a burger joint and sat outside to listen to the songs. 5. See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they'd grind it up and that was their so-called coffee. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic