pseud-

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Variant of pseudo-
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An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur
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false, not genuine, fake

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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-)
<span class="word-self">pseudspan>.
{i} fictitious name; pen name, name used by an author in place of his real name; assumed name
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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
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