pseud
a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a pseud.
Origin of pseud
1Words Nearby pseud
Other definitions for pseud- (2 of 3)
variant of pseudo- before a vowel: pseudepigraphy.
Other definitions for pseud. (3 of 3)
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How to use pseud in a sentence
There is a perpetual confusing of actual ideas with what are nothing but pseud-ideas.
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I | Herbert SpencerMutatis mutandis this definition will apply to aggressive (pseud-episematic) resemblance.
In 734 synaposematic colouring the warning is genuine, in pseud-aposematic it is a sham.
British Dictionary definitions for pseud (1 of 2)
/ (sjuːd) /
informal a false, artificial, or pretentious person
another word for pseudo
British Dictionary definitions for pseud. (2 of 2)
pseudonym
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