quasi

Meaning

Resembling or having a likeness to something.

Synonyms

so to speak

mock

sham

as it were

false

pseudo

sort of

be like

hardly

level

likewise

pretended

resemblance

rule

seem

semi

similarity

similarly

spurious

suspected

virtually

would-be

correspond to

apply correspondingly

being proportionate to

conforming to

-ish

standard

#quasi |quasi

aim

almost

analogous

as if

associate

as though

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwɑːzi/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).