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.
• PSEUDOLOGIST
  One who utters falsehoods; a liar.
• 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
• 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.