"quasi-" meaning in English

See quasi- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

IPA: /ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/, /ˈkweɪ.saɪ/, /kwɑːzi/, /kwɑːsi/, /kwɑːzi/ [Canada], /kwæzi/ [Canada], /-aɪ/ [Canada], /-ʌɪ/ [Canada]
Rhymes: -ɑːzi Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”), from quam (interrogative adverb) + sī (conditional particle). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|quasi||almost, as it were}} Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”) Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} quasi-, {{en-prefix}} quasi-
  1. Almost, virtually. Tags: morpheme Synonyms (almost): pene-, sub- Synonyms (resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only): -like Related terms: quango, quasar Translations (almost): kvasi- (Danish), nær- (Danish), kvasi- (Finnish), niby- (Polish)
    Sense id: en-quasi--en-prefix-xzKRtLlL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 0 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 94 0 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 95 0 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 0 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 95 0 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 94 0 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 93 0 7 Disambiguation of 'almost': 95 2 3 Disambiguation of 'resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only': 55 16 30 Derived forms: quasiaesthetic, quasiamicable, quasi-arithmetical, quasi-art, quasiatom, quasi-automatic, quasi-automatically, quasi-belief, quasi-bialgebra, quasi-classic, quasi-colloquial, quasi-continuous, quasi-continuum, quasicontraction, quasi-contractual, quasi-copula, quasi-crime, quasi-crystalline, quasi-definition, quasi-deify, quasi-dereliction, quasidihedral, quasidiploid, quasidirect, quasi-divine, quasi-dying, quasi-emperor, quasi-episcopal, quasi-equilibrium, quasi-eternal, quasi-ethical, quasi-ethically, quasi-existence, quasi-fascist, quasi-feudal, quasifunction, quasi-general, quasi-governmental, quasi-grammatical, quasi-hallucinatory, quasi-historical, quasi-horizontal, quasi-implication, quasi-independent, quasi in rem, quasi-instantaneous, quasi-invariant, quasi-jazz, quasi-judicial, quasi-legal, quasi-logical, quasi-marital, quasi-marriage, quasi-material, quasi-mathematical, quasi-mechanical, quasi-mechanistic, quasi-metallic, quasi-metaphysical, quasi-military, quasi-miracle, quasi-miraculous, quasi-modal, quasi-molecular, quasi-molecule, quasi-monastic, quasi-monopoly, quasi-mythical, quasi-neutral, quasi-neutrality, quasinorm, quasi-nuptial, quasi-object, quasi-official, quasi-optical, quasi-ossianic, quasi-parlando, quasi parlato, quasi-partner, quasi-peak, quasi-permanent, quasi-personal, quasi-philosophical, quasi-physical, quasiplatonic, quasiprojective, quasi-public, quasi-purposive, quasiquotation, quasiquote, quasi-religion, quasi-religious, quasirhombicosidodecahedron, quasirhombicuboctahedron, quasiromantic, quasi-romantic, quasi-science, quasi-semi, quasi-sensation, quasiseparable, quasi-simultaneous, quasi-simultaneously, quasistability, quasi-statement, quasi-stationary, quasisteady, quasi-substance, quasi-technical, quasi-thermodynamic, quasi-totalitarian, quasi-totality, quasitransitive, quasitruncated, quasi-universal, quasi-vacuity, quasi-verb, quasi-war, Quasi-War Disambiguation of 'almost': 95 2 3
  2. Apparently, seemingly, or resembling. Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-quasi--en-prefix-aDhN4p33
  3. To a limited extent or degree, to be somewhat or partially. Tags: morpheme Synonyms (partial): partially, demi-, semi- Synonyms (somewhat): sort of, semi-
    Sense id: en-quasi--en-prefix-3egVvIjh Disambiguation of 'partial': 0 0 100 Disambiguation of 'somewhat': 28 8 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (resembling): para-, -oid, -form, -iform, -esque, -ish, -ly, -some, -y Synonyms (resembling; restricted to casual registers): -ass Related terms (false): pseudo-
Disambiguation of 'resembling': 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'resembling; restricted to casual registers': 55 0 45 Disambiguation of 'false': 0 0 0
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          "ref": "1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 18:",
          "text": "The quasi-death of insanity with its small periodic remissions, its deviations into good sense, even into brilliant insight, was almost more cruel really than outright death.",
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    "Rhymes:English/ɑːzi",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "quasiaesthetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiamicable"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-arithmetical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-art"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiatom"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-automatic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-automatically"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-belief"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-bialgebra"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-classic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-colloquial"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-continuous"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-continuum"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasicontraction"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-contractual"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-copula"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-crime"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-crystalline"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-definition"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-deify"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-dereliction"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasidihedral"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasidiploid"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasidirect"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-divine"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-dying"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-emperor"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-episcopal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-equilibrium"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-eternal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-ethical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-ethically"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-existence"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-fascist"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-feudal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasifunction"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-general"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-governmental"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-grammatical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-hallucinatory"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-historical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-horizontal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-implication"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-independent"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi in rem"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-instantaneous"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-invariant"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-jazz"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-judicial"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-legal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-logical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-marital"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-marriage"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-material"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-mathematical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-mechanical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-mechanistic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-metallic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-metaphysical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-military"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-miracle"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-miraculous"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-modal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-molecular"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-molecule"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-monastic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-monopoly"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-mythical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-neutral"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-neutrality"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasinorm"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-nuptial"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-object"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-official"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-optical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-ossianic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-parlando"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi parlato"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-partner"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-peak"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-permanent"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-personal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-philosophical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-physical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiplatonic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiprojective"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-public"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-purposive"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiquotation"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiquote"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-religion"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-religious"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasirhombicosidodecahedron"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasirhombicuboctahedron"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiromantic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-romantic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-science"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-semi"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-sensation"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasiseparable"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-simultaneous"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-simultaneously"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasistability"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-statement"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-stationary"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasisteady"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-substance"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-technical"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-thermodynamic"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-totalitarian"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-totality"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasitransitive"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasitruncated"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-universal"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-vacuity"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-verb"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasi-war"
    },
    {
      "word": "Quasi-War"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "quasi",
        "4": "",
        "5": "almost, as it were"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”), from quam (interrogative adverb) + sī (conditional particle).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prefix",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "quasi-",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quasi-",
      "name": "en-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prefix",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "quango"
    },
    {
      "word": "quasar"
    },
    {
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "pseudo-"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 18:",
          "text": "The quasi-death of insanity with its small periodic remissions, its deviations into good sense, even into brilliant insight, was almost more cruel really than outright death.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Almost, virtually."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Almost",
          "almost"
        ],
        [
          "virtually",
          "virtual"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Apparently, seemingly, or resembling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Apparently",
          "apparently"
        ],
        [
          "seemingly",
          "seemingly"
        ],
        [
          "resembling",
          "resembling"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "The British constitution famously rests on convention. This requires a compact between politicians working as a cabinet and a quasi-independent civil service.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To a limited extent or degree, to be somewhat or partially."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "limited",
          "limited"
        ],
        [
          "extent",
          "extent"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "somewhat",
          "somewhat"
        ],
        [
          "partially",
          "partially"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkweɪ.zaɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkweɪ.saɪ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɑːzi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɑːsi/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɑːzi/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwæzi/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-aɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-ʌɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːzi"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "quasi"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "pene-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "sub-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "para-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-oid"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-form"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-iform"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-esque"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-ish"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-ly"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-some"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling",
      "word": "-y"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling; restricted to casual registers",
      "word": "-ass"
    },
    {
      "sense": "resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only",
      "word": "-like"
    },
    {
      "sense": "partial",
      "word": "partially"
    },
    {
      "sense": "partial",
      "word": "demi-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "partial",
      "word": "semi-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "somewhat",
      "word": "sort of"
    },
    {
      "sense": "somewhat",
      "word": "semi-"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "kvasi-"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "nær-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "kvasi-"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "almost",
      "word": "niby-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quasi-"
}

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