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Synonyms for pseudo
ˈsu doʊpseu·do

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playeradjective

    a person who makes deceitful pretenses

    Synonyms:
    histrion, fraud, imposter, fake, dissimulator, faker, player, pretender, fraudulence, juke, role player, hoax, dissembler, put-on, humbug, shammer, actor, pseud, hypocrite, phoney, sham, phony, postiche, impostor, dupery, malingerer, thespian, skulker

    Antonyms:
    echt, genuine

  2. pseudoadjective

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

    "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"

    Antonyms:
    genuine, echt

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pseudo":

    pseudo-, alias, counterfeit, nickname

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#4480fraud
#6134fake
#7156nickname
#7917alias
#12811pseudo
#20014sham
#22497hoax
#25316counterfeit
#30702phony
#38883juke
#44043hypocrite
#50882humbug
#55561pretender
#69823imposter
#78721impostor
#79590phoney
#99163thespian
#130303faker
#133752pseud
#256731postiche
#323539fraudulence

How to use pseudo in a sentence?

  1. Fred Allen:

    A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

  2. Tark Ji-Il:

    For Shin to be arrested for forced confinement and physical assaults shows that her church was not working as a' normal' church but had characteristics of a pseudo-religion exploiting the followers.

  3. Chris Walsh:

    It feels like [ legalization ] has to happen soon, but it might not happen how people think. You get a bill passed to allow banks to clearly serve this industry without a whole bunch of restrictions, and that could be pseudo-legalization, so, the actual move by the federal government to' legalize' marijuana or let states decide might not come for years ; but that reality might play out anyway with some other type of legislation.

  4. Brett Cohen:

    There is a direct correlation between efforts to boycott and divest from Sanction Israel on campus and increased hate crimes against Jews, including swastikas painted on Jewish centers and fraternities, Jewish students being harassed and intimidated, and several cases of outright violence, the pseudo-academic delegitimizaton of Sanction Israel fuels this fire, and has created a situation where some pro-Israel students are afraid to voice their opinions in the classroom.

  5. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Almost all Employees and franchisees of brokerage firms and even tips giving pseudo experts do not invest or trade a single penny rupee in stock market and this is substantial proof to make people understand how big fraud is stock market


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