Self-styled

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  self-styled
       adj : as claimed by and for yourself often without justification;
             "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
             [syn: {soi-disant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-styled":
     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