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pseud
[ sood ]
/ sud /
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noun
a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a pseud.
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Origin of pseud
First recorded in 1950–55; by shortening of pseudointellectual or parallel compounds with pseudo-
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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)
pseud
/ (sjuːd) /
noun
informal a false, artificial, or pretentious person
adjective
another word for pseudo
British Dictionary definitions for pseud (2 of 2)
pseud.
abbreviation for
pseudonym
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