'Quasi' definitions:
Definition of 'quasi'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"
Definition of 'Quasi'
From: GCIDE
- Quasi \Qua"si\ [L.] 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; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quasi'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- apishly,
- apocryphal,
- approximate,
- approximating,
- approximative,
- artificial,
- as it were,
- assumably,
- assumed,
- assumedly,
- assumptively,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- byname,
- close,
- cognominal,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- diminutive,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- epithetic,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- formal,
- garbled,
- hokey,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- imitatively,
- in name only,
- in seeming,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- much at one,
- much the same,
- near,
- nearly the same,
- nominal,
- nominative,
- onomatopoetically,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plagiarized,
- presumably,
- presumedly,
- presumptively,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- queer,
- reputedly,
- same but different,
- seemingly,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposably,
- supposedly,
- suppositionally,
- supposititious,
- supposititiously,
- synthetic,
- synthetically,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- titular,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- would-be