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# pseudo

«pseudo» in Mova's school dictionary: **false or pretend, looking like something it is not:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (informal); prefix pseudo- (fragment)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (prefix) «pseudo-» means false or pretend, looking like something it is not: pseudoscience, pseudonym. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#m1)

2) (informal adjective) Fake, not genuine, or pretending to be clever: «His pseudo-intellectual talk annoyed everyone.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Mostly met as a prefix in school words: a pseudonym is a pen name (Mark Twain was a pseudonym), pseudoscience is a claim that looks like science but does not use proper evidence (like horoscopes). In maths and computing, «pseudocode» is a plan for a program written in simple words.

### examples

- Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x1)
- Astrology is a pseudoscience, not a real science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x2)
- Write your program in pseudocode first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x3)
- His pseudo-friendliness didn't fool anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x4)
- Some authors use a pseudonym to stay private. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x5)
- The advert used pseudo-scientific words to sound clever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/#x6)

### note

Mostly a prefix; on its own it is informal. The «p» is silent: «SOO-doh» or «SYOO-doh». From Greek «pseudes», false.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pseudo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pseudo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.