pseud
UK/s(j)uːd//suːd/
pseud noun: an intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.
Noun (1)
pseud (plural pseuds)
- An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.
- He and two friends were known as “the three pseuds” among the rest of the boys, who thought them too clever by half.2012 November 9, Decca Aitkenhead, “Robbie Coltrane: ‘I take no nonsense’”, in The Guardian
Noun (2)
pseud
Noun (3)
pseud (plural pseuds)
- A pseudonym.
pseud meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
pseud in Malayalam
- poser, pretentious person, poseur
- കപടനാട്യക്കാരൻ, വ്യാജവേഷക്കാരൻ, വൃഥാഭിമാനി, ബഡായി, വഞ്ചകൻ, കിതവൻ
pseud in Kannada
- ಸೋಗಾಳಿ, ತೋರ್ಕೆ, ಠಕ್ಕ
Forms of pseud
| plural | pseuds |
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Origin of pseud
Possible clipping of pseudointellectual. From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
Words formed from pseud
Words that rhyme with pseud
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
Questions about pseud
- What does pseud mean?
- Pseud means an intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.
- What is pseud in Malayalam?
- Pseud in Malayalam is കപടനാട്യക്കാരൻ, വ്യാജവേഷക്കാരൻ, വൃഥാഭിമാനി. See Pseud meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is pseud?
- Pseud is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pseud?
- Pseud is pronounced /s(j)uːd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pseud?
- The plural of pseud is pseuds.
Words near pseud in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pseud (page history and authors); pseud (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); pseud (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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