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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | avowed |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, announced, declared, pledged, stated, told |
| Main Entry: | nominal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed, theoretical |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, as advertised, formal, given, honorary, in effect only, in name only, mentioned, named, ostensible, pretended, professed, puppet, purported, seeming, self-styled, simple, so-called, stated, suggested, titular |
| Notes: | nominal means insignificantly small; minimal means the least possible or smallest in amount and degree |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | ostensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged, supposed |
| Synonyms: | apparent, avowed, colorable, demonstrative, exhibited, illusive, illusory, likely, manifest, notable, outward, plausible, pretended, professed, purported, quasi, seeming, semblant, so-called, specious, superficial |
| Antonyms: | improbable, obscure, unlikely, vague |
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bluffing, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, dissimulated, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, impostrous, imposturous, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, purported, put-on, quack, sham*, shammed, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apparent |
| Synonyms: | appearing, illusive, illusory, ostensible, outward, professed, quasi-, semblant, specious, surface |
| Antonyms: | real, true |
| Main Entry: | so-called |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, allegedly, commonly named, formal, itular, nominal, ostensible, pretended, professed, purported, self-named, self-styled, soi-disant, wrongly named |
| Main Entry: | avowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sworn |
| Synonyms: | accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, avowedly, professed |
| Main Entry: | promised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pledged |
| Synonyms: | affirmed, agreed, asseverated, assured, consented, covenanted, ensured, guaranteed, insured, plighted, professed, stipulated, subscribed, sworn, undertaken, underwritten, vouched for, vowed, warranted |
| Main Entry: | demonstrating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | showing definitively |
| Synonyms: | deictic, ostensible, ostensive, professed |
| Antonyms: | hiding |
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