apocryphal

apocryphal
Synonyms and related words:
Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, affected, antinomian, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, doubtful, dressed up, dubious, dummy, emanationist, embellished, embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, FALSE, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, incorrect, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nonofficial, nonorthodox, open to question, pantheist, pantheistic, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, questionable, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unaccepted, unapproved, unattested, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, uncanonical, uncertified, unchecked, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, ungenuine, unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unscriptural, unsound, untrue, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, warped, wrong

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Apocryphal — A*poc ry*phal, a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. [1913 Webster] 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. [1913 Webster] The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • apocryphal — ► ADJECTIVE 1) widely circulated but unlikely to be true: an apocryphal story. 2) of or belonging to the Apocrypha …   English terms dictionary

  • apocryphal — index assumed (feigned), disputable, fictitious, ill founded, spurious, untrue Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • apocryphal — (adj.) 1580s, of doubtful authenticity, from APOCRYPHA (Cf. Apocrypha) + AL (Cf. al) (1). Middle English had apocrive (late 14c.) in same sense …   Etymology dictionary

  • apocryphal — mythical, *fictitious, legendary, fabulous Analogous words: questionable, dubious, *doubtful Contrasted words: genuine, *authentic, veritable, bona fide …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • apocryphal — [adj] questionable; fake counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unauthenticated, ungenuine, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong; concepts 570,582 Ant. authentic, doubtless, real, true …   New thesaurus

  • apocryphal — [ə pä′krəfəl] adj. 1. of doubtful authorship or authenticity 2. not genuine; spurious; counterfeit 3. [A ] of or like the Apocrypha SYN. FICTITIOUS …   English World dictionary

  • apocryphal — [[t]əpɒ̱krɪf(ə)l[/t]] ADJ An apocryphal story is one which is probably not true or did not happen, but which may give a true picture of someone or something. This may well be an apocryphal story... There is a story, probably apocryphal, about a… …   English dictionary

  • apocryphal — adjective /əˈpɒkrɪfəl,əˈpɒkrəfəl,əˈpɑːkrɪfəl,əˈpɑːkrəfəl/ a) Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha. Many scholars consider the stories of the monk Teilo to be apocryphal. b) Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical …   Wiktionary

  • apocryphal — [16] Apocryphal is a ‘secondgeneration’ adjective; the original adjective form in English was apocrypha (‘The writing is apocrypha when the author thereof is unknown’, John de Trevisa 1387). This came, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • apocryphal — adjective an apocryphal story about a famous person or event is well known but probably not true: Washington s apocryphal phrase: Father, I cannot tell a lie …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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