diff --git a/src/main/java/groovy/lang/MetaClassImpl.java b/src/main/java/groovy/lang/MetaClassImpl.java
index 91273c5e086..3c178edf03f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/groovy/lang/MetaClassImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/groovy/lang/MetaClassImpl.java
@@ -2199,6 +2199,7 @@ public List<MetaProperty> getProperties() {
         // simply return the values of the metaproperty map as a List
         List<MetaProperty> ret = new ArrayList<>(propertyMap.size());
         for (MetaProperty mp : propertyMap.values()) {
+            if (mp.getName().contains("$")) continue;
             if (mp instanceof CachedField) {
                 if (mp.isSynthetic()
                         // GROOVY-5169, GROOVY-9081, GROOVY-9103, GROOVY-10438, GROOVY-10555, et al.