pseudo
adjective
[ ˈsjuːdəʊ ]
• not genuine; spurious or sham.
• "we are talking about real journalists and not the pseudo kind"
Similar:
bogus,
sham,
phoney,
imitation,
artificial,
mock,
ersatz,
quasi-,
fake,
feigned,
pretended,
false,
faux,
spurious,
counterfeit,
fraudulent,
deceptive,
misleading,
assumed,
contrived,
affected,
insincere,
pretend,
put-on,
fakey,
cod,
pseudo
noun
• a pretentious or insincere person.
• "the arty chat of a campus pseudo"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘false apostle or teacher’): independent use of pseudo-.
pseudo-
combining form
• supposed or purporting to be but not really so; false; not genuine.
• "pseudonym"
• resembling or imitating.
• "pseudo-hallucination"
Origin:
from Greek pseudēs ‘false’, pseudos ‘falsehood’.
