apocryphal as an adjective: - 1
Apocryphal - 2
apocryphal
adjective
1 apocryphal
Being of questionable authenticity.
Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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Roget 495:
erroneous,
untrue,
false,
devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal,
unreal,
ungrounded,
groundless;
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
heretical
etc.
(heterodox)
984;
unsound;
illogical
etc.
477.
inexact,
unexact inaccurate†,
incorrect;
indefinite
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
illusive,
illusory;
delusive;
mock,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
spurious
etc.
545;
deceitful
etc.
544;
perverted.
controvertible,
unsustainable;
unauthenticated,
untrustworthy.
exploded,
refuted;
discarded.
in error,
under an error
etc.
n.;
mistaken
etc.
v.;
tripping
etc.
v.;
out,
out in one's reckoning;
aberrant;
beside the mark,
wide of the mark,
wide of the truth,
way off,
far off;
astray
etc.
(at fault)
475;
on a false scent,
on the wrong scent;
in the wrong box,
outside the ballpark;
at cross purposes,
all in the wrong;
all out.
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Roget 984:
heterodox,
heretical;
unorthodox,
unscriptural,
uncanonical;
antiscriptural†,
apocryphal;
unchristian,
antichristian†;
schismatic,
recusant,
iconoclastic;
sectarian;
dissenting,
dissident;
secular
&c.,
(lay)
997.
pagan;
heathen,
heathenish;
ethnic,
ethnical;
gentile,
paynim†;
pantheistic,
polytheistic.
Judaical,
Mohammedan,
Brahminical†,
Buddhist
etc.
n.;
Romish,
Protestant
etc.
n..
bigoted
etc.
(prejudiced)
481,
(obstinate)
606;
superstitious
etc.
(credulous)
486;
fanatical;
idolatrous
etc.
991;
visionary
etc.
(imaginative)
515.
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2 Apocryphal
Of or belonging to the Apocrypha.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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