Quasi

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a likeness to something; resembling: a quasi success.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. resembling or having a likeness to something
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • As if; as it were; in a manner: used in introducing a proposed or possible explanation.
  • A prefix or apparent adjective or adverb (and hence often written without the hyphen) meaning ‘seeming,’ ‘apparent’ (equivalent to ‘as it were,’ ‘in appearance,’ in predicate use), expressing some resemblance, but generally implying that what it qualifies is in some degree fictitious or unreal, or has not all the features of what it professes to be: as, a quasi-argument; a quasi-historical account. In construction and partly in sense it is like pseudo-.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having some resemblance
  • Equivalent
    similar   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    quasi-   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    qualified   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abbasi    Anastasi    Fossey    abbasi    anastasi    posse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    quae    enim    iam    quidem    etiam    quod    quoque    nunc    vero    nisi