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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind" [syn: self-styled, soi-disant]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1822 self-proclaimed <self-styled experts>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. called so by oneself; would-be; pretended (a self-styled artist).

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as a self-styled leader or expert, you disapprove of them because they claim to be a leader or expert but they do not actually have the right to call themselves this. Two of those arrested are said to be self-styled area commanders... ADJ: ADJ n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Pretended, would-be, self-dubbed, soi-disant.

Moby Thesaurus

affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled, honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be





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