Search Result for "in_name_only":
Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. by title or repute though not in fact;
- Example: "he's a doctor in name only"
[syn: in name, in name only]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

in name only adv 1: by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only" [syn: in name, in name only]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "in name only": 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