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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. False or counterfeit; fake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
  2. n. A poseur; one who is fake.
  3. n. travel industry, informal pseudo-city code
  4. n. Internet A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
  5. adj. Being other than what is apparent, a sham.
  6. adj. Insincere.
  7. adj. Spurious.

Etymologies

  1. From pseudo-. (Wiktionary)
  2. From pseudo-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “That is why the term pseudo-leftist is so important.”

    Kasama

  • “The cultural "Left" what I call the pseudo left is more dominant, they promote a politics of inclusion, participation and flattery.”

    Archive 2008-05-01

  • “The reason for this is because the interpretation of the ‘uncanny valley’ notion is heavily based upon human interpretation and is described as being very subjective hence the term pseudo-science.”

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Japanese develop ‘female’ android

  • “The cultural 'Left' what I call the pseudo left is more dominant, they promote a politics of inclusion, participation and flattery.”

    truth slips from view in the sea of post modern knowledge

  • “A.K. Geim of the University of Manchester, England predicted what they termed a pseudo quantum Hall effect in strained graphene.”

    Nano Tech Wire

  • “In the past three years, a number of parents' groups have organized against the program, protesting what they call the pseudo psychology at its core.”

    TIME.com: Top Stories

  • “Osborne doesn't like the research, which he calls pseudo-scientific and "peer-reviewed.”

    TimesArgus.com: Sports

  • “They're not told sequentially, and transitions are in pseudo-comic-book format - so there's back-and-forth time things, like Earlier and Later.”

    intertribal: two more horror movies, reviewed

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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘pseudo’

  1. imitative
  1. counterfeit

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. tucked-up
  2. headless
  3. pig-faced
  4. newly-made
  1. weak-chinned
  2. itcan
  3. Jesuitical
  4. light-sensing
  1. oughtto
  2. 'tll
  3. far-removed
  4. `twill
  1. undiscernible
  2. whod
  3. ill-devised
  4. nooning
  1. leave
  2. and-a-half
  3. doyou
  4. ’twould
  1. Se

reverse dictionary (60)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pseud
  2. pseudaconitine
  3. pseudapostle
  4. pseudastacus
  5. 0SMP
  6. fictitious force
  7. false
  8. quasi
  9. sympodium
  10. pseudangina
  11. Jerusalem cherry
  12. Easter lily
  1. maple
  2. daffodil
  3. isonitro
  4. pseudosculum
  5. yravish
  6. boletic acid
  7. bull brier
  8. miscatholic
  9. oncidieæ
  10. pseudepiscopacy
  11. pseudogeneral
  12. pseudo-volcanic
  1. subresin
  2. china-root
  3. Philosohical
  4. bedway
  5. bell-rose
  6. crow-bells
  7. giust
  8. hale
  9. kiotome
  10. komeceras
  11. lymphadenoma
  12. pseudo force
  1. pseudo-event
  2. teddy boys
  3. geostrophic
  4. Paracelsus
  5. paralogism
  6. pseudo-china
  7. pseudo-symmetric
  8. sycamore
  9. xylic
  10. archangel
  11. bell-flower
  12. buddhist
  1. copalche
  2. corrodentia
  3. pseudo-articulation
  4. pseudogenus
  5. rib
  6. Dionysian
  7. drake
  8. geometry
  9. herderite
  10. nucleo-albumin
  11. pseudo-symmetry
  12. treasury

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