Apocryphal Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-pŏkrə-fəl
Said of statements or supposed facts
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. spurious
  2. unauthenticated
  3. fictitious
  4. doubtful
  5. jansenistic
  6. arian
  7. erastian
  8. jansenist
  9. manichaean
  10. pelagian
  11. monophysitic
  12. wyclifite
  13. nonofficial
  14. nonorthodox
  15. unscriptural
  16. montanistic
  17. unvalidated
Questionable; fake
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. counterfeit
  2. disputed
  3. doubtful
  4. dubious
  5. fabricated
  6. false
  7. fictitious
  8. sham
  9. unauthentic
  10. unreal
  11. untrue
Antonyms:
  1. true
  2. real
  3. doubtless
  4. authentic
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Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. donatist
  2. lollard
  3. monophysite
  4. montanist
  5. sabellian
  6. emanationist

Words Related to Apocryphal

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. legendary
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  3. pseudepigraphic
  4. pseudepigraphical
  5. gnostic
  6. apocryphon
  7. testimonia

Apocryphal Sentence Examples

  • But it is also probable that these apocryphal versions are based on a genuine original.

  • This is the most important of all the apocryphal writings for the history of religious thought.

  • It is used to designate an apocryphal writing entitled in the older MSS.

  • And the Greek Psalter, though it contains one apocryphal psalm at the close, is essentially the same as the Hebrew; there is nothing to suggest that the Greek was first translated from a less complete Psalter and afterwards extended to agree with the extant Hebrew.

  • The legends which speak of the Cid as accompanying this monarch in his expeditions to France and Italy must be rejected as purely apocryphal.

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