'in name only' definitions:
Definition of 'in name only'
From: WordNet
adverb
By title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only" [syn: in name, in name only]
Synonyms of 'in name only'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alleged,
- apparently,
- artificially,
- avowed,
- byname,
- claimed,
- cognominal,
- diminutive,
- epithetic,
- erroneously,
- factitiously,
- falsely,
- formal,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- hypocritical,
- nominal,
- nominally,
- nominative,
- ostensible,
- ostensibly,
- plausibly,
- pretended,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- quasi,
- seemingly,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-styled,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- specious,
- spuriously,
- synthetically,
- titular,
- truthlessly,
- ungenuinely,
- unnaturally,
- untruly,
- unveraciously,
- would-be
Words containing 'in name only'
- In name,
- In the name of,
- Name,
- Named,
- Namely,
- Naming,
- names,
- Baptismal name,
- By-name,
- Christian name,
- First name,
- Given name,
- Maiden name,
- Name plate,
- Pen name,
- Place name,
- Proper name,
- Purser's name,
- Specific name,
- To call names,
- To-name,
- Trade name,
- Trivial name,
- above-named,
- assumed name,
- author's name,
- bad name,
- big name,
- brand name,
- company name,
- domain name,
- false name,
- family name,
- fictitious name,
- file name,
- generic name,
- last name,
- manner name,
- middle name,
- name and address,
- name calling,
- name day,
- name dropper,
- name of the game,
- name part,
- name tag,
- part name,
- pet name,
- stage name,
- street name,
- whole name,
- writer's name,
- To call any one names,
- To take a name in vain,
- Two-name,
- computer file name,
- file name extension,
- name-dropping,
- shiloh name of a city,
- To take the name of God in vain,
- brand-name drug,
- two-name paper