Word Meanings - PSEUDO-ROMANTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.
Related words: (words related to PSEUDO-ROMANTIC)
- PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - PSEUDONAVICELLA
See PSEUDONAVICULA - ROMANTICAL
Romantic. - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - PSEUDOPODIAL
Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. - PSEUDOBLEPSIS
False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth. - ROMANTICIST
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley. - PSEUDO-HEART
Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system. - PSEUDOSTELLA
Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - PSEUDOSCOPE
An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope. Wheatstone. - PSEUDOCARP
That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig. - PSEUDOBRANCHIA
A rudimentary branchia, or gill. -- Pseu`do*bran"chi*al, a. - PSEUDOTURBINAL
See TURBINAL - PSEUDONEUROPTEROUS
Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera. - ROMANTICALY
In a romantic manner. - PSEUDO-CONE
One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others. - ROMANTIC
1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more - PSEUDOLOGIST
One who utters falsehoods; a liar. - NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv. - ATTASTE
To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.