"apocryphal" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /əˈpɒkɹɪfəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈpɒkɹəfəl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈpɑːkɹɪfəl/ [US], /əˈpɑːkɹəfəl/ [US] Audio: en-us-apocryphal.ogg [US] Forms: more apocryphal [comparative], most apocryphal [superlative]
Etymology: From apocrypha + -al. Etymology templates: {{af|en|apocrypha|-al}} apocrypha + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} apocryphal (comparative more apocryphal, superlative most apocryphal)
  1. (Christianity) Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha. Categories (topical): Christianity Translations (of or pertaining to Apocrypha): պարականոն (parakanon) (Armenian), apokryfinen (Finnish), apocryphoil (Manx), apokryficzny (Polish), apokryfowy (Polish), апокрифический (apokrifičeskij) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-apocryphal-en-adj-KXTisV0E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 25 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 42 24 34 Topics: Christianity Disambiguation of 'of or pertaining to Apocrypha': 70 10 20
  2. (by extension) Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical. Tags: broadly Synonyms: allonymous, spurious Translations (of doubtful authenticity): شاذ (šāḏ) (Arabic), منكر (Arabic), ضعيف (Arabic), apócrifu (Asturian), апокри́фен (apokrífen) (Bulgarian), apòcrif (Catalan), 杜撰的 (dùzhuàn de) (Chinese Mandarin), apocrief (Dutch), apokrifa (Esperanto), apokryfinen (Finnish), epäuskottava (Finnish), epäilyttävä (Finnish), apocryphe (French), apócrifo (Galician), unecht (German), vafasamur að uppruna [masculine] (Icelandic), vafasamur [masculine] (Icelandic), af vafasömum uppruna (Icelandic), apókrýfur [masculine] (Icelandic), apacrafúil (Irish), apocrifo (Italian), 典拠が疑わしい (tenkyo ga utagawashii) (alt: てんきょがうたがわしい) (Japanese), neuashlishagh (Manx), neuhickyr (Manx), apokryfowy (Polish), apokryficzny (Polish), apócrifo (Portuguese), апокрифи́ческий (apokrifíčeskij) (Russian), апо̀крифан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), apòkrifan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), apócrifo (Spanish), apokryfisk (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-apocryphal-en-adj-efoTSDek Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 25 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 42 24 34 Disambiguation of 'of doubtful authenticity': 1 91 8
  3. (by extension) Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend. Tags: broadly Synonyms: anecdotal Translations (of dubious veracity; urban legend): مشكوك في صحته (Arabic), ضعيف (Arabic), недостове́рен (nedostovéren) (Bulgarian), съмни́телен (sǎmnítelen) (Bulgarian), apokryfinen (Finnish), epäuskottava (Finnish), epäilyttävä (Finnish), うその (uso no) (Japanese), にせの (english: nise no) (Japanese), apokryficzny (Polish), apokryfowy (Polish), недостове́рный (nedostovérnyj) (Russian), сомни́тельный (somnítelʹnyj) (Russian), tvivelaktig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-apocryphal-en-adj-BAhNrQuY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 25 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 42 24 34 Disambiguation of 'of dubious veracity; urban legend': 10 6 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: semiapocryphal, unapocryphal Related terms: Apocrypha, apocryphalist, apocryphally, apocryphalness

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          "word": "مشكوك في صحته"
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      "word": "apocryphally"
    },
    {
      "word": "apocryphalness"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Christianity"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Montague Rhodes James, “Introductory”, in The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament",
          "text": "The Latins are throughout poorer. Tertullian and Cyprian will be referred to; but Jerome hates apocryphal literature, and says so, while Augustine, a valuable source of knowledge about some New Testament Apocrypha, never, it so happens, quotes spurious Old Testament literature at all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha."
      ],
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        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "Apocrypha",
          "Apocrypha"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Christianity) Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha."
      ],
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        "Christianity"
      ]
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "canonical"
        }
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Many scholars consider the stories of the monk Teilo to be apocryphal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11",
          "text": "The structural anthropologist urges us to ignore the orthodox who labor so patiently trying to eliminate the apocryphal variants from the one true text.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical."
      ],
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        [
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          "doubtful"
        ],
        [
          "authenticity",
          "authenticity"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "canonical",
          "canonical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "allonymous"
        },
        {
          "word": "spurious"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There is an apocryphal tale of a little boy plugging the dike with his finger.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dubious",
          "dubious"
        ],
        [
          "veracity",
          "veracity"
        ],
        [
          "anecdotal",
          "anecdotal"
        ],
        [
          "urban legend",
          "urban legend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "anecdotal"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/əˈpɒkɹɪfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈpɒkɹəfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈpɑːkɹɪfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈpɑːkɹəfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "parakanon",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "պարականոն"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "apokryfinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "apocryphoil"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "apokryficzny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "apokryfowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "apokrifičeskij",
      "sense": "of or pertaining to Apocrypha",
      "word": "апокрифический"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šāḏ",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "شاذ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "منكر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "ضعيف"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apócrifu"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "apokrífen",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "апокри́фен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apòcrif"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dùzhuàn de",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "杜撰的"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apocrief"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apokrifa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apokryfinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "epäuskottava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "epäilyttävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apocryphe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apócrifo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "unecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vafasamur að uppruna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vafasamur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "af vafasömum uppruna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apókrýfur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apacrafúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apocrifo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "てんきょがうたがわしい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tenkyo ga utagawashii",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "典拠が疑わしい"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "neuashlishagh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "neuhickyr"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apokryfowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apokryficzny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apócrifo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "apokrifíčeskij",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "апокрифи́ческий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "апо̀крифан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "apòkrifan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apócrifo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of doubtful authenticity",
      "word": "apokryfisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "مشكوك في صحته"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "ضعيف"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nedostovéren",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "недостове́рен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎmnítelen",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "съмни́телен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "apokryfinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "epäuskottava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "epäilyttävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uso no",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "うその"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "nise no",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "にせの"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "uso no",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "うその"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "apokryficzny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "apokryfowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nedostovérnyj",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "недостове́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "somnítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "сомни́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of dubious veracity; urban legend",
      "word": "tvivelaktig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "apocryphal"
}

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