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would-be
[wood-bee] 
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would-be
[wood-bee]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wannabe, wishful |
| Main Entry: | quasi |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | almost; to a certain extent |
| Synonyms: | apparent, apparently, fake, mock, near, nominal, partly, pretended, pseudo-, seeming, seemingly, semi-, sham*, so-called, supposedly, synthetic, virtual, would-be |
| Notes: | pseudo is a prefix meaning 'counterfeit, deceptive, false' and it requires a hyphen when joined to a proper noun; quasi is a prefix meaning 'resembling' or 'in some manner' and it is usually hyphenated to a noun |
| Antonyms: | entire, total, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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