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Definition of So-called
1. Adjective. Doubtful or suspect. "These so-called experts are no help"
Definition of So-called
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) So named; called by such a name, with a very strong connotation that the item is not worthy of that name. ¹
2. Adjective. (mathematics science) Same as above, without the negative connotation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of So-called
Literary usage of So-called
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Often they are not constant in value, but die out and then start over again,
so-called ''oscillating currents." They are mainly used for wireless telegraphy ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"THIRD BOOK INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON MANNERS, PROPERLY SO CALLED CHAPTER I That
Manners Are Softened as Social Conditions Become More Equal WE perceive that ..."
3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"Courage proper, then, is something of this sort, of courage But besides this
there are five other kinds of s courage so called. ' . improperly \ First ..."
4. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"Courage proper, then, is something of this sort, of cm* But besides this there
are five other kinds of »««««• courage so called. First, "political courage ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"The so-called ' newer gneiss ' is nothing more than a part of the ma.", to which
the older gneiss belongs, brought up by a system of gigantic folds and ..."
6. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"The material of variable capital, ie, the mass of the means of subsistence it
represents for the labourer, or the so-called labour fund, was fabled as a ..."
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