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单词 pseudo
释义

pseudo

adjective

pseu·​do ˈsü-(ˌ)dō How to pronounce pseudo (audio)
: being apparently rather than actually as stated : sham, spurious
distinction between true and pseudo humanism K. F. Reinhardt

Synonyms

  • affected
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • bogus
  • contrived
  • factitious
  • fake
  • false
  • feigned
  • forced
  • mechanical
  • mock
  • phony
  • phoney
  • plastic
  • pretended
  • put-on
  • sham
  • simulated
  • spurious
  • strained
  • unnatural
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Example Sentences

Here at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, you have your heads of state, your foreign ministers, your titans of business, your intellectuals (pseudo and real)—but you also have Sharon Stone, Angelina Jolie, and Richard Gere. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2005 Freemasonry, intensely popular in the eighteenth century, had inherited from earlier pseudo Egyptology a fascination with pyramids and hieroglyphs, but it defanged the occult into something harmless enough to go on the back of the great seal of the sunny-side-up American republic. Simon Schama, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2001 … whoever is deceived by the pseudo activity under Mussolini is deceived by the spasmotic last jerk of a corpse. F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 19 Apr. 1925 the pseudo friendliness of a salesperson trying to sell you something
Recent Examples on the Web By his senior season, Finley was like a pseudo-offensive coordinator for Ponchatoula, which had a roster of mostly sophomores that year. Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 29 Aug. 2022 Quantum physics has long been the go-to discipline for anyone in need of a pseudo-scientific justification for a quack theory. Julian Baggini, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022 There’s a lot of gruesome pseudo-medical procedures going on, including a shot of someone’s mouth being stitched up that will haunt our dreams. Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022 The new exiles formed various pseudo-state structures around her. New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 The NFTs can be seen as a pseudo-war bond, where people can invest in the certificates of ownership for the digital assets as a debt-security. Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2022 The parents and activists have organized through a new group called Bonds for the Win, which is named for a financial instrument at the heart of the pseudo-legal effort. NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022 The film has a pseudo-literary construction, built, as a title card declares, in twelve chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022 The Utes will host Cal on Sunday at the Huntsman Center, before tackling an intriguing non-conference opportunity Wednesday vs. TCU on a pseudo-neutral floor at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Late Latin pseudo-

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

pseudo

adjective

as in mock
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality the pseudo friendliness of a salesperson trying to sell you something

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • mock
  • fake
  • false
  • strained
  • unnatural
  • artificial
  • mechanical
  • simulated
  • phony
  • bogus
  • exaggerated
  • affected
  • forced
  • assumed
  • pretended
  • plastic
  • phoney
  • sham
  • contrived
  • spurious
  • theatrical
  • factitious
  • feigned
  • cute
  • theatric
  • hollow
  • automatic
  • formal
  • empty
  • unreal
  • fabricated
  • calculated
  • manufactured
  • put-on
  • conventional
  • pat
  • hokey
  • hypocritical
  • unauthentic
  • concocted
  • deliberate
  • unrealistic
  • stiff
  • wooden
  • histrionic
  • canned
  • insincere
  • melodramatic
  • facile
  • unctuous
  • labored
  • stylized
  • rigid
  • cultivated
  • conscious
  • cutesy
  • simpering
  • mealy
  • overdone
  • genteel
  • studied
  • two-faced
  • impersonal
  • mealymouthed
  • mincing
  • artful
  • premeditated
  • inflexible
  • left-handed
  • overrefined
  • goody-goody
  • double-dealing
  • overacted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • genuine
  • real
  • natural
  • spontaneous
  • true
  • authentic
  • artless
  • realistic
  • unaffected
  • bona fide
  • right
  • sincere
  • unfeigned
  • honest
  • smooth
  • uncontrived
  • easy
  • impromptu
  • unforced
  • instinctive
  • effortless
  • unconscious
  • impulsive
  • extemporaneous
  • unstudied
  • ingenuous
  • unpretending
  • unrehearsed
  • unprompted
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