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Pseudo definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PSEUDO, Gr. false, a prefix signifying false, counterfeit or spurious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic" n
1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin pseudo- Date: 15th century being apparently rather than actually as stated ; sham, spurious <distinction between true and pseudo humanism — K. F. Reinhardt>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 sham; spurious. 2 insincere. --n. (pl. -os) a pretentious or insincere person. Etymology: see PSEUDO-

Moby Thesaurus

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