Quasi
[KWEI-zi]
Part of speech: combining form
Origin: Latin, 15th century
1.
Seemingly; apparently but not really.
2.
Being partly or almost.
Examples of Quasi in a sentence
"George was a quasi-Floridian; he loved Jimmy Buffett and followed the Buccaneers, but he lived in North Dakota."
"My father never went to college, but he read so much that he spoke like a quasi-academic."
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