24 Moby Thesaurus words for "would be": assuming, byname, cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, in name only, insolent, nominal, nominative, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, quasi, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-elect, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, titular