3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Apocryphal \A*poc"ry*phal\, a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. [1913 Webster] 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. [1913 Webster] The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. --Sir G. C. Lewis. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: apocryphal adj 1: of questionable authenticity 2: of or belonging to the Apocrypha From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 117 Moby Thesaurus words for "apocryphal": Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, affected, antinomian, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, doubtful, dressed up, dubious, dummy, emanationist, embellished, embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, incorrect, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nonofficial, nonorthodox, open to question, pantheist, pantheistic, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, questionable, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unaccepted, unapproved, unattested, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, uncanonical, uncertified, unchecked, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated, ungenuine, unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unscriptural, unsound, untrue, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, warped, wrong
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