PSEUDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pseudo mean? 

• PSEUDO (noun)
  The noun PSEUDO has 1 sense:

1. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

  Familiarity information: PSEUDO used as a noun is very rare.

• PSEUDO (adjective)
  The adjective PSEUDO has 1 sense:

1. (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of

  Familiarity information: PSEUDO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSEUDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer

Hypernyms ("pseudo" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pseudo"):

name dropper (someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends)

ringer (a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses)

• PSEUDO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of

Context example:

pseudoclassic

Similar:

counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

 Context examples 

The ICR BR strain is a general purpose model that is employed in safety and efficacy testing, aging studies, pseudo pregnancy, and as a surgical model.

(ICR BR Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

As for me, I am an inveterate opponent of socialism just as I am an inveterate opponent of your own mongrel democracy that is nothing else than pseudo- socialism masquerading under a garb of words that will not stand the test of the dictionary.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)