Apocryphal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
  • adj. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . raced through Russia's trenches” ( W. Bruce Lincoln).
  • adj. Bible Of or having to do with the Apocrypha.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.
  • adj. Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical.
  • adj. Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
  • adj. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of doubtful authorship, authenticity, or inspiration; spurious; fictitious; false.
  • Specifically— Eccles.: Of doubtful sanction; uncanonical; having no ecclesiastical authority.
  • Of or pertaining to the Apocrypha: as, “the Apocryphal writers,” Addison.
  • n. A writing not canonical; a book or passage of uncertain source, authority, or credit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or belonging to the Apocrypha
  • adj. being of questionable authenticity
    • Equivalent
    questionable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    equivocal    mythic    fictitious    spurious    false   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    supposititious    attributable    erroneous    uncanonical    untrue   
     
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