Apocryphal \A*poc"ry*phal\, a.
1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha.
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2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal;
mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
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The passages . . . are, however, in part from
apocryphal or fictitious works. --Sir G. C.
Lewis.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
apocryphal
adj 1: of questionable authenticity
2: of or belonging to the Apocrypha
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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