in name only

2 definitions found

in name only - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  in name only
      adv 1: by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in
             name only" [syn: in name, in name only]

in name only - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "in name only":
     alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed,
     cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, factitiously,
     falsely, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, hypocritical, nominal,
     nominally, nominative, ostensible, ostensibly, plausibly,
     pretended, pretexted, professed, purported, quasi, seemingly,
     self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant,
     specious, spuriously, synthetically, titular, truthlessly,
     ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, would-be