Pseudo

Definition: Pseudo

Pseudo

Adjective

1. (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic".

Noun

1. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pseudo

Deception

Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.

Similarity

Approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.

Crosswords: Pseudo

German (schein-), Portuguese (so-called), Serbo-Croatian (pseudo), Spanish (pseudo).

Pseudo Sultan (1912)

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Books

• Pseudo Differential Operators & Markov Processes: Generators and Their Potential Theory (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pseudo (reference)

• Pseudo Youth Human (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• OXO Good Grips Uplift Teakettle, Pseudo Blue (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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"Pseudo I-WP" by Alan Schoen. An approximation to a unit cell of Schoen's I-WP surface. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for extensive comments. More ...

"Pseudo D" by Alan Schoen. An approximation to a unit cell of Schwarz's D surface. See the comments inside "Pseudo I-WP". More ...

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The recently described dexamethasone suppression-CRH test is able to differentiate most cases of Cushing's from Pseudo Cushing's. (references)

Pseudo Cushing's does not have the same long-term effects on health as Cushing's syndrome and does not require treatment directed at the endocrine glands. (references)

Although observation over months to years will distinguish Pseudo Cushing's from Cushing's, the dexamethasone-CRH test was developed to distinguish between the conditions rapidly, so that Cushing's patients can receive prompt treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "pseudo": pseudo code ♦ pseudo first order ♦ pseudo frequency ♦ pseudo noise. Additional references.

Beginning with "pseudo": pseudo-academic, pseudo-actuality, pseudo-adjectives, pseudo-affixed, pseudo-albanian, pseudo-altar, pseudo-ambassador, pseudo-anonymous, pseudo-anthropological, pseudo-anticline, pseudo-apse, pseudo-archaism, Pseudo-aristeas, pseudo-aristocratic, pseudo-art, pseudo-arthritis, pseudo-authenticity, pseudo-authority, pseudo-autobiographical, pseudo-autobiography, pseudo-bishops, pseudo-bohemian, Pseudo-britain, pseudo-bubo, Pseudo-bulb, Pseudo-Car, pseudo-centre, pseudo-changes, Pseudo-china, pseudo-citizen, pseudo-classical, pseudo-cleft, pseudo-clients, pseudo-communication, pseudo-community, Pseudo-cone, pseudo-cosmic, pseudo-costs, pseudo-cottagey, pseudo-crocodiles, pseudo-crystalline, Pseudo-cumene, pseudo-debate, pseudo-deixis, pseudo-democracy, pseudo-democratic, Pseudo-denis, pseudo-denys, pseudo-device, pseudo-devices, pseudo-dickensian, pseudo-dionysians, Pseudo-dionysius, Pseudo-dionysus, Pseudo-dipteral, pseudo-dramatic, pseudo-dreams, pseudo-ecological, pseudo-ecumenical, pseudo-education, pseudo-egalitarianism, pseudo-egyptian, pseudo-emblema, pseudo-enquiry, pseudo-escaperoutes, pseudo-eternity, pseudo-ethnic, pseudo-euclidean, pseudo-evolutionary, pseudo-expert, pseudo-factor, pseudo-faith, pseudo-family, pseudo-fascist, pseudo-female, pseudo-feminist, pseudo-filter, pseudo-fishes, pseudo-flaw, pseudo-flies, pseudo-'folk', pseudo-fossil, pseudo-front, Pseudo-galena, pseudo-gene, pseudo-generic, pseudo-gentility, pseudo-georgian, Pseudo-Gest, pseudo-gonococci, pseudo-grandeur, pseudo-guerrillas, Pseudo-hannah, pseudo-hardcore, pseudo-heads, Pseudo-heart, pseudo-historical, pseudo-history, pseudo-hitchcockian, pseudo-hollandaise, pseudo-homophone, pseudo-homophones, pseudo-humanity, Pseudo-hyperthophic, pseudo-hypertrophic, pseudo-ideal, pseudo-igniarius, pseudo-improvement, pseudo-improvements, pseudo-individual, pseudo-individualism, pseudo-individualization, pseudo-individualized, pseudo-infantile, pseudo-information, pseudo-injury, pseudo-instruction, pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-intellectuals, pseudo-interest, pseudo-intimacy, pseudo-inverse, pseudo-irish, Pseudo-isidore, pseudo-isidorean, pseudo-isotropic, pseudo-karst, pseudo-kinship, pseudo-knowledge, pseudo-learned, pseudo-lesbian, pseudo-linguistic, pseudo-literacy, pseudo-lizards, pseudo-macho, pseudo-marxist, pseudo-masochism, pseudo-medical, pseudo-membrane, Pseudo-metallic, pseudo-metric, pseudo-military, pseudo-military-type, pseudo-modernism, Pseudo-monocotyledonous, pseudo-mythic, pseudo-nationalist, pseudo-natural, pseudo-needs, pseudo-networking, pseudo-news, pseudo-oak, pseudo-objective, pseudo-objectives, pseudo-obstruction, Pseudo-Obstruction, pseudo-official, pseudo-older-and-wiser, pseudo-one-dimensional, pseudo-operation, pseudo-operations, pseudo-opposite, pseudo-oriental, pseudo-parallel, pseudo-parents, pseudo-participation, pseudo-pendentives, pseudo-penis, pseudo-period, Pseudo-peripteral, pseudo-philanthropist, pseudo-philosopher, pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-picturesquely, pseudo-pier, pseudo-pin, pseudo-planetarium, pseudo-platanus, pseudo-political, pseudo-pregnancy, pseudo-privatisations, pseudo-problem, pseudo-purposeful, pseudo-questions, pseudo-radical, pseudo-random, pseudo-random noise, pseudo-random number, pseudo-rational, pseudo-realism, pseudo-reality, pseudo-reformation, pseudo-relations, pseudo-relationships, pseudo-religion, pseudo-religious, pseudo-renaissance, pseudo-research, pseudo-revolutionaries, pseudo-riemann, pseudo-riemannian, pseudo-romanesque, pseudo-romanists, Pseudo-romantic, pseudo-ruthlessness, pseudo-sacral, pseudo-satisfaction, pseudo-science, pseudo-sciences, pseudo-scientific, pseudo-scientists, pseudo-scots, pseudo-scottish, pseudo-scrotum, pseudo-scylax, pseudo-sectarian, pseudo-self, pseudo-shakespearean, pseudo-significance, pseudo-ski, pseudo-sophistication, pseudo-sound, pseudo-southern, pseudo-spatial, pseudo-stars, pseudo-statement, pseudo-sterile, pseudo-structuralist, pseudo-subject, Pseudo-symmetric, Pseudo-symmetry, pseudo-synonyms, pseudo-synonymy, pseudo-themis, pseudo-theological, pseudo-tribal, pseudo-tty, pseudo-tuberculosis, Pseudo-tudor, pseudo-tumorales, pseudo-twin, pseudo-twofold, pseudo-typeset, pseudo-ulpian, pseudo-variable, pseudo-variables, pseudo-vector, pseudo-victorian, pseudo-virtuosity, pseudo-vitamins, pseudo-whorish, Pseudo-wombles, pseudo-xxxx, pseudo-zealot.

Containing "pseudo": A Pseudo-platanus, Acer Pseudo-Platanus, down-pseudo-cost, up-pseudo-cost.

Albanian

i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), i falsifikuar (adulterate, counterfeit, fabricated, faked, shoddy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏مستعار (fake, false), ‏لاحقة (termination), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏بادئة (acanthus, prefix, un-). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снобски (ritzy, snobbish, snooty, uppish, upstage), сноб (snob), псевдоинтелктуалец, превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references)

Chinese 

�'充 (Pseudo-). (various references)

Czech

předstíraný (affected, feigned, make believe, ostensible, phoney, phony, simulated, spurious, studied), nepravý (artificial, dummy, faked, forged, mock, pinchbeck, spurious, wrong), falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references)

Danish

pseudoascites (pseudo-ascites), pseudo-isotrop skive (PI disc, pseudo-isotropic disc), pseudoinvers form (pseudo-inverse), pseudoileus (pseudo-ileus), pseudofossil (pseudofossil, pseudo-fossil), pseudoemboli (pseudo-embolism), pseudo-Conn's syndrom (pseudo-Conn syndrome), pseudo-Babinskireflex (pseudo-Babinski reflex), pseudokode (pseudo code, pseudocode), pseudoataxi (pseudo-ataxia), pseudogaldeblære (pseudo-gallbladder), pseudo-aortainsufficiens (pseudo-aortic insufficiency), pseudoalternans (pseudo-alternans), pseudoalleler (pseudo-alleles), pseudo-acysti (pseudo-acystia), pseudo-actinomykose (pseudo-actinomycosis), pseudoacromegali (pseudo-acromegaly), pseudo Brewster-vinkel (Brewster angle, pseudo Brewster-angle), pseudo-atrophoderma colli (pseudo-atrophoderma colli), pseudo-stoej (pseudo noise), pseudovektor (axial vector, pseudo-vector), pseudotuberkulose (pseudo-tuberculosis), pseudofaktor (pseudo-factor), pseudostupor (pseudo-stupor), pseudo-lyd (pseudo-sound), pseudo-pseudohyperparathyreoidisme (pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism), pseudo-ozoena (pseudo-ozaena), pseudo-ozæna (pseudo-ozaena), pseudo-mund-og-klovesyge (pseudo foot and mouth disease), pseudomodus (pseudo mode), pseudo-mitralkonfiguration (pseudo mitral configuration), pseudomiltbrand (pseudo-anthrax), pseudomilium colloidale (pseudo colloid milium), pseudo-Meig's syndrom (pseudo Meigs syndrome), pseudomaske (pseudo-filter), pseudomongoloid habitus (pseudo-mongoloid habitus), pseudo-tilfældige data (pseudo-random), tilsyneladende adgangsmulighed (loophole, pseudo-flaw), androgyni (androgyny, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, pseudo-hermaphroditism), Bertolotti's tegn (pseudo dilatation of intervertebral foramina), dæmpet egenfrekvens (damped natural frequency, pseudo frequency), dummyfaktor (pseudo-factor), erklæring (declaration, declarative, declarative statement, directive, pseudo-instruction, statement), falsk antiklinal (exocline, inverted-fan structure, pseudoanticlinal, pseudo-anticline, synclinorium), kaedekode (chain code, pseudo-random binary sequence), lakridsspisersyndrom (pseudo-Conn syndrome), Y-ledning til hoereapparater (bilateral, binaural, pseudo-binaural), aksialvektor (axial vector, pseudo-vector), kvindelig pseudohermafroditisme (androgyny, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, pseudo-hermaphroditism). (various references)

Dutch

pseudofront (pseudo-front), PN (pseudo noise), pseudo-acromegalie (pseudo-acromegaly), pseudo-actinomycosis (pseudo-actinomycosis), pseudo-anticlinaal (exocline, inverted-fan structure, pseudoanticlinal, pseudo-anticline, synclinorium), pseudo-ataxie (pseudo-ataxia), pseudo-binauraal (bilateral, binaural, pseudo-binaural), pseudo-Brewster-hoek (Brewster angle, pseudo Brewster-angle), pseudo-code (pseudo code, pseudocode), pseudo-factor (pseudo-factor), pseudo-fossiel (pseudofossil, pseudo-fossil), pseudo-geluid (pseudo-sound), pseudo-ruis (pseudo noise), pseudo-willekeurig (pseudo-random), pseudowetenschap (pseudo-science), pseudo-vector (axial vector, pseudo-vector), pseudo-filter (pseudo-filter), pseudostupor (pseudo-stupor), pseudo-ileus (pseudo-ileus), pseudo-pseudohypoparathyreoidisme (pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism), pseudomodus (pseudo mode), pseudokoop (pseudo purchase), pseudo-isotrope schijf (PI disc, pseudo-isotropic disc), pseudo-invers (pseudo-inverse), pseudotuberculose (pseudo-tuberculosis), androgynie (androgyny, hermaphroditism, pseudo-hermaphroditism), teken van Bertolotti (pseudo dilatation of intervertebral foramina), ketting code (chain code, pseudo-random binary sequence), gedempte eigen frequentie (damped natural frequency, pseudo frequency), declaratie (declaration, proclamation, statement), axiale vector (axial vector, pseudo-vector). (various references)

Finnish

pseudokäänteisluku (pseudo-inverse), pseudoantikliini (exocline, inverted-fan structure, pseudoanticlinal, pseudo-anticline, synclinorium), pseudofaktori (pseudo-factor), pseudo-isotrooppinen kiekko (PI disc, pseudo-isotropic disc), pseudokoodi (pseudo code, pseudocode), pseudorintama (pseudo-front), pseudo-satunnainen (pseudo-random), pseudosuodatin (pseudo-filter), pseudofossiili (pseudofossil, pseudo-fossil), valekohina (pseudo noise), ketjukoodi (chain code, M-sequence, pseudo-random binary sequence), välikoodi (pseudo code, pseudocode), vaimennettu ominaistaajuus (damped natural frequency, pseudo frequency), näennäisvika (loophole, pseudo-flaw), näennäissuodatin (pseudo-filter), näennäinen Brewsterin kulma (Brewster angle, pseudo Brewster-angle). (various references)

French

menteur, faux. (various references)

German

pseudo- (mock, pseudo-), schein- (dummy, make believe, mock, phoney, phony, sham, specious), falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, put on, sham, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

καλπικόσ (false), ψευδήσ (bogus, false, mendacious, mock, phony, sham). (various references)

Hungarian

hamisan (off key, sharp), hamis (adulterous, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, factitious, false, frame-up, hollow, insincere, loaded, make-believe, mendacious, meretricious, mock, mockery, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseud, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, two faced, untrue, untruthful), ál- (bogus, dummy, dutch, impersonator, mock, phantom, sham). (various references)

Indonesian

palsu (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, fake). (various references)

Italian

pseudo- (quasi-), finto (artificial, bogus, double, dummy, false, feigned, fictious, insincere, mock, ostensible, pretended, sham), falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

疑似 (false, mock, quasi, sham, suspected), �"�似　 (pref suspected, sham), �"�似 (false, mock, quasi, sham, suspected), 偽性 , 似非 (false, mock, pretended, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎせい (bluff, copy, deceiving an enemy, false oath, forgery, imitation, legal fiction, perjury, sacrifice), ぎじ (character of questionable form, false, mock, proceedings, quasi, questionable word, sham, suspected), えせ (false, mock, pretended, pseudo-, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references)

Manx

sou- (mad, prefix mad, pseudo-, silly), far-henn (pseudo-archaic). (various references)

Pig Latin

eudopsay.(various references)

Portuguese

pseudo-ângulo de Brewster (Brewster angle, pseudo Brewster-angle), pseudo código (pseudo code), pseudo-defeito (loophole, pseudo-flaw), pseudo-fóssil (pseudofossil, pseudo-fossil), pseudo-frente (pseudo-front), pseudo-frequência (damped natural frequency, pseudo frequency), pseudomodo (pseudo mode), pseudo-ruído (pseudo noise), pseudo-som (pseudo-sound), pseudotuberculose (pseudo-tuberculosis), pseudo- (pseudo-), sequencia M (chain code, M-sequence, pseudo-random binary sequence), antiforma sinclinal (exocline, inverted-fan structure, pseudoanticlinal, pseudo-anticline, synclinorium), hermafroditismo (androgyny, hermaphroditism, pseudo-hermaphroditism), hábito pseudo-mongolóide (pseudo-mongoloid habitus), frequência própria amortecida (damped natural frequency, pseudo frequency), falso anticlinal (exocline, inverted-fan structure, pseudoanticlinal, pseudo-anticline, synclinorium), directiva (declaration, declarative, declarative statement, directive, pseudo-instruction), dico pseudo-isotrópico (PI disc, pseudo-isotropic disc), codigo de cadeia (chain code, M-sequence, pseudo-random binary sequence). (various references)

Romanian

pseudoştiinţã (pseudo-science). (various references)

Russian 

фальшивый (faked, false, feigned, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, snide, supposititious), псевдо. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pseudo. (various references)

Spanish

pseudo, falso (ambidexter, apostate, bad, bastard, blank, blind, bogus, brummagem, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, double-minded, dud, dummy, fake, false, hollow, incorrect, lost, lying, mendacious, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, quack, sham, shifty, spurious, treacherous, two faced, two-tongued, unsounded, untrue, wrong). (various references)

Swedish

falsk (bad, bogus, devious, disingenuous, double faced, dud, dummy, fake, false, flash, forged, fulsome, hollow, imitation, insincere, janus-faced, meretricious, mistaken, mock, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, postiche, sham, supposititious, two faced, unsound, untrue, wrong). (various references)

Turkish

yalancı (deceitful, fabricator, fabulist, fibber, liar, mendacious, prevaricator, pseudo-, quack, sham, simulator, taleteller, twister, twisty, untruthful), takma (artificial, assumed, attachable, by-, bye-, false, postiche, pseudo-), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful). (various references)

Ukrainian

фальшивий (bad, base, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, double-minded, faked, false, falsified, feigned, flash, off-key, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plugged, queer, sheeny, wrong), неправдивий (calumniatory). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pseudo": pseudoallele, pseudoalleles, pseudocholinesterase, pseudocholinesterases, pseudoclassic, pseudoclassicism, pseudoclassicisms, pseudoclassics, pseudocoel, pseudocoelomate, pseudocoelomates, pseudocoels, pseudocyeses, pseudocyesis, pseudomonad, pseudomonades, pseudomonads, pseudomonas, pseudomorph, pseudomorphic, pseudomorphism, pseudomorphisms, pseudomorphous, pseudomorphs, pseudonym, pseudonymities, pseudonymity, pseudonymous, pseudonymously, pseudonymousness, pseudonymousnesses, pseudonyms, pseudoparenchyma, pseudoparenchymas, pseudoparenchymata, pseudoparenchymatous, pseudopod, pseudopodal, pseudopodia, pseudopodial, pseudopodium, pseudopods, pseudopregnancies, pseudopregnancy, pseudopregnant, pseudorandom, pseudos, pseudoscience, pseudosciences, pseudoscientific, pseudoscientist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: souped.

-1 letter: dopes, douse, dupes, posed, pseud, spode, spued, updos.

-2 letters: does, dope, dose, dues, duos, dupe, dups, epos, odes, oped, opes, opus, ouds, peds, peso, pods, pose, puds, soup, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, udos, updo, used.

-3 letters: doe, dos, due, duo, dup, eds, ode, ods, oes, ope, ops, ose, oud, ped, pes, pod.

+1 letter: outsped, pseudos, spoused, spouted, unposed.

+2 letters: espoused, euploids, expounds, outspeed, outspend, postlude, postured, pounders, produces, proudest, purposed, sprouted, subdepot, supposed, unpoised, unposted, uproused, upsoared, uptossed.

+3 letters: autopsied, bespoused, clupeoids, decouples, dipterous, disposure, douzepers, duopolies, geepounds, guidepost, nonplused, outpassed, outpushed, outspeeds, outspends, outspread, pendulous, ponderous, postludes, poulardes, poundages, producers, protrudes, pseudonym, pseudopod, splendour, spodumene, subdepots, subperiod, supergood, superroad, supported, unexposed, unopposed, unspoiled, unspotted, unstopped, upholders.