The definition of pseudo is someone or something fake, false or pretend. An example of pseudo used as an adjective is the phrase pseudo date, a girl taking her cousin to the prom to pose as her date.
Pseudo means “false, pretend, or unreal”. Family is a slippery word to define because it means so many different things to people. Pseudo-Family is a term that arose to describe roles taken by groups in the women's prison system, such as Father, Mother, Sister, Aunt, for example.
Pseudo-cleft sentences (also called wh -clefts) are similar in function to cleft sentences, but they are formed with the pronoun what (= the thing(s) that/which ) .
pseudo
- ersatz.
- imitation.
- mock.
- phony.
- pirate.
- pretend.
- sham.
- wrong.
Pseudo-Questions are questions that cannot be answered. These questions are unanswerable simply because they cannot be supported with evidence. They are meant to be discussed with opinions only and any other method of solving it is impossible.
Pseudo-independence and emotional neglectPseudo-independence is an extreme reaction against dependence rather than true independence. If, as children, clients have been let down emotionally, or worse, neglected, they learn that nobody can be relied upon.
1 false, pretending, or unauthentic. pseudo-intellectual. 2 having a close resemblance to. pseudopodium.
[pseudo- + ephedrine]pseudo- is a combining form meaning “false,” “pretended,” “unreal,” used in the formation of compound words (pseudoclassic; pseudointellectual); in scientific use, pseudo- denotes close or deceptive resemblance to the following element (pseudobulb; pseudocarp), and is used sometimes in chemical
Their definition: Pseudoteaching is something you realize you're doing after you've attempted a lesson which from the outset looks like it should result in student learning, but upon further reflection, you realize that the very lesson itself was flawed and involved minimal learning.
15-letter words that start with pseudo
- pseudopregnancy.
- pseudocoelomate.
- pseudomorphisms.
- pseudoscorpions.
- pseudoscientist.
- pseudoephedrine.
- pseudoarthrosis.
- pseudomonadales.
Many surgical procedure names can be broken into parts to indicate the meaning. Thus, gastrectomy refers to the surgical removal of the stomach (or sections thereof). "Otomy" means cutting into a part of the body; a gastrotomy would be cutting into, but not necessarily removing, the stomach.
falsification. [fawl″sĭ-fĭ-ka´shun] a deliberate misstatement or misrepresentation.
Prefix denoting not or in, into, within. Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005.
oma: Suffix meaning a swelling or tumor. Many words in medicine end in -oma. The medical suffix -oma came from the Greek suffix -oma which was used in a different way -- to transform a verb into a noun.
Tachy- = prefix denoting fast, rapid. Tachypnoea = rapid breathing. Tachycardia = rapid heart beat.
a combining form meaning “false,” “pretended,” “unreal” (pseudoclassic; pseudointellectual), “closely or deceptively resembling” (pseudocarp). Also, esp. before a vowel,pseud-.
In prospect theory, the pseudocertainty effect is the tendency for people to perceive an outcome as certain while it is actually uncertain in multi-stage decision making.
Pseudocode is an artificial and informal language that helps programmers develop algorithms. Pseudocode is a "text-based" detail (algorithmic) design tool. The rules of Pseudocode are reasonably straightforward. All statements showing "dependency" are to be indented. These include while, do, for, if, switch.
Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon is a fan term commonly used to refer to any Pokémon that has a three-stage evolution line, 1,250,000 experience at level 100, and a base stat total of exactly 600 (before Mega Evolving).
pseudo(adj) (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of. "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic" Antonyms: genuine, echt.
disapproving. : a person who wants to be thought of as having a lot of intelligence and knowledge but who is not really intelligent or knowledgeable.
