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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