pseudo

5 definitions found

pseudo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pseudo- \Pseu"do-\ [Gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein
     to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.]
     A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,
     pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;
     pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,
     pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used
     adjectively.
     [1913 Webster]

pseudo - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pseudo
      adj 1: (often used in combination) not genuine but having the
             appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
      n 1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter,
           impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham,
           shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]

pseudo - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pseudo
  
     <jargon> /soo'doh/ (Usenet) Pseudonym.
  
     1. An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human
     for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative
     repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de Usenet",
     often associated with forged postings designed to conceal
     message origins.  Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of
     this type is BIFF.
  
     2. Notionally, a flamage-generating AI program simulating
     a Usenet user.  Many flamers have been accused of actually
     being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of
     the required sophistication yet exists.  However, in 1989
     there was a famous series of forged postings that used a
     phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the
     styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large
     samples of their back postings (compare Dissociated Press).
     A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries,
     and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when
     the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-13)
  

pseudo - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  pseudo
   /soo'doh/, n.
  
     [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym']
  
     1. An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human for
     amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of
     one's net.behavior; a `nom de Usenet', often associated with forged
     postings designed to conceal message origins. Perhaps the best-known
     and funniest hoax of this type is B1FF. See also tentacle.
  
     2. Notionally, a flamage-generating AI program simulating a Usenet
     user. Many flamers have been accused of actually being such entities,
     despite the fact that no AI program of the required sophistication
  yet
     exists. However, in 1989 there was a famous series of forged postings
     that used a phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the
     styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples
  of
     their back postings (compare Dissociated Press). A significant
     number of people were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over
     their authenticity was settled only when the perpetrator came forward
     to publicly admit the hoax.
  

pseudo - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "pseudo":
     affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
     brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
     distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
     factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious,
     fictive, forged, garbled, hokey, illegitimate, imitation, junky,
     make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
     plagiarized, pretended, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham,
     shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious,
     supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted,
     unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wrong