quasi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkweɪzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkweɪsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwɑːzi/
ipa: /ˈkweɪˌzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkweɪˌsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwɑːˌzaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkwɑːzi/
ipa: /ˈkwɑːsi/
ipa: /kwɑːzi/
ipa: /kwæzi/
ipa: /-aɪ/
ipa: /-ʌɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːzi
rhymes: -ɑːsi
homophone: quasi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quasi (“almost, as it were”), from quam (interrogative adverb) + sī (conditional particle).
Senses: examples: 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.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 18:
glosses: Almost, virtually.
glosses: Apparently, seemingly, or resembling.
examples: text: The British constitution famously rests on convention. This requires a compact between politicians working as a cabinet and a quasi-independent civil service.
ref: 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To a limited extent or degree, to be somewhat or partially.
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-
Derived terms: 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
Related terms: word: quango
word: quasar
sense: false
word: pseudo-