misnomer

Roget-categorie 565

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#565. Misnomer

zelfstandig naamwoord

misnomer — lucus a non lucendo [Lat.] — Mrs.
Malaprop — what d'ye call 'em etc. (neologism) 563^† — Hoosier.
nickname, sobriquet, by-name — assumed name, assumed title — alias — nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre [Fr.], nom de plume — pseudonym, pseudonymy.

werkwoord

misname, miscall, misterm^† — nickname — assume a name.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

misnamed etc. v. — pseudonymous — soi-disant [Fr.] — self called, self styled, self christened — so-called.
nameless, anonymous — without a having no name — innominate, unnamed — unacknowledged.

bijwoord

in no sense.

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