'self-styled' definitions:
Definition of 'self-styled'
From: WordNet
adjective
As claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind" [syn: self-styled, soi-disant]
Synonyms of 'self-styled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- byname,
- cognominal,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- diminutive,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- epithetic,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- formal,
- garbled,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- in name only,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- nominal,
- nominative,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- professed,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-appointed,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-proclaimed,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- titular,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- would-be