disapproval If you say that someone is a pseud, you mean that they are trying to appear very intellectual but you think that they appear silly. a person who pretends to know a lot about a subject and talks about it in a complicated way in order to make other people admire them - used to show disapproval (pseudo-)
Pseudo- is used to form adjectives and nouns that indicate that something is not the thing it is claimed to be. For example, if you describe a country as a pseudo-democracy, you mean that it is not really a democracy, although its government claims that it is. pseudo-intellectual images. false or not real