pseudo-

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pseudo- \Pseu"do-\ [Gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein
   to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.]
   A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,
   pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;
   pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,
   pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used
   adjectively.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "pseudo":
      affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
      brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
      distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
      factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious,
      fictive, forged, garbled, hokey, illegitimate, imitation, junky,
      make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
      plagiarized, pretended, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham,
      shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious,
      supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted,
      unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wrong

    

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