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- [soo-doh]
- /ˈsu doʊ/
- /sjuː.dəʊ/
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- [soo-doh]
- /ˈsu doʊ/
Definitions of pseudo word
- adjective pseudo not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham. 1
- adjective pseudo almost, approaching, or trying to be. 1
- noun Technical meaning of pseudo (jargon) /soo'doh/ (Usenet) Pseudonym. 1. An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de Usenet", often associated with forged postings designed to conceal message origins. Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of this type is BIFF. 2. Notionally, a flamage-generating AI program simulating a Usenet user. Many flamers have been accused of actually being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of the required sophistication yet exists. However, in 1989 there was a famous series of forged postings that used a phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their back postings (compare Dissociated Press). A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax. 1
- adjective pseudo not genuine; pretended 0
- adjective pseudo sham; false; spurious; pretended; counterfeit 0
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Origin of pseudo
First appearance:
before 1940 One of the 7% newest English words
First recorded in 1940-45; independent use of pseudo-
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pseudo popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pseudo usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pseudo
adj pseudo
- anonymous — If you remain anonymous when you do something, you do not let people know that you were the person who did it.
- arty — Someone who is arty seems very interested in drama, film, music, poetry, or painting. People often describe someone as arty when they want to suggest that the person is pretentious.
- blue sky — fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- blue-sky — of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result
- bogus — If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
noun pseudo
- beguiler — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- fakery — the practice or result of faking.
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
adjective pseudo
- doubtable — (uncommon) Capable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- impostrous — (archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
- quasi — resembling; seeming; virtual: a quasi member.
- whatchamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
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