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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: quasi- Date: 1642 1. having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes <a quasi corporation> 2. having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent <a quasi contract>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. (introducing an exclamation) that is to say; as it were. Etymology: L, = as if, almost

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quasi Qua"si [L.] As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

[L.] Apparently, as if, as though, as it were, in a certain sense, to a certain extent, in a manner.

Moby Thesaurus

affected, apishly, apocryphal, approximate, approximating, approximative, artificial, as it were, assumably, assumed, assumedly, assumptively, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, close, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, formal, garbled, hokey, honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, imitatively, in name only, in seeming, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, much at one, much the same, near, nearly the same, nominal, nominative, onomatopoetically, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarized, presumably, presumedly, presumptively, pretended, pseudo, put-on, queer, reputedly, same but different, seemingly, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposably, supposedly, suppositionally, supposititious, supposititiously, synthetic, synthetically, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be