The scholar regards so-called compulsory education as useless.
Source: tatoeba (48931)
So-called
//ˈsəʊˌkɔːld//
Synonyms for "so-called" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
Related word relations
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1 entriesTranslations
125 translations across 45 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ashtuquajtur adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- λεγόμενος adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- οὕτω καλούμενος adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- οὕτω ὀνομαζόμενος adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Arabic
1 entries- مَا يُسَمَّى adj (so named)
Armenian
2 entries- այսպես կոչված adj (so named)
- այսպես կոչված adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- adlanan adj (so named)
- dırnaqarası adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Belarusian
4 entries- т.з. adj (so named)
- т.з. adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- так зва́ны adj (so named)
- так зва́ны adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Bulgarian
2 entries- така́ наре́чен adj (so named)
- така́ наре́чен adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Catalan
2 entries- anomenat adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- dit adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بە ناو adj (so named)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 所謂嘅 /所谓嘅 adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 所謂 /所谓 adj (so named)
- 所謂 /所谓 adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Czech
2 entries- takzvaný adj (so named)
- takzvaný adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Danish
2 entries- såkaldt adj (so named)
- såkaldt adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Dutch
4 entries- zgn. adj (so named)
- zgn. adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- zogeheten adj (so named)
- zogenaamd adj (so named)
Estonian
1 entries- nõndanimetatud adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Finnish
4 entries- muka adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- niin kutsuttu adj (so named)
- niin kutsuttu adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- niin sanottu adj (so named)
French
3 entries- dénommé adj (so named)
- prétendu adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- soi-disant adj (so named, but wrongly so)
German
3 entries- sog. adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- sogenannt adj (so named)
- sogenannt adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Greek
4 entries- αποκαλούμενος adj (so named)
- αποκαλούμενος adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- δήθεν adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- λεγόμενος adj (so named)
Hebrew
4 entries- not an adjective adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- כביכול used as a conjunctive adverb adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- כך נקרא adj (so named)
- נקרא כך adj (so named)
Hindi
2 entries- कहने को adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- बोलने को adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Hungarian
2 entries- úgynevezett adj (so named)
- úgynevezett adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Italian
2 entries- cosiddetto adj (so named)
- cosiddetto adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Japanese
2 entries- 所謂 adj (so named)
- 所謂 adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Korean
4 entries- 소위 adj (so named)
- 소위 adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- 이른바 adj (so named)
- 이른바 adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Latin
1 entries- nuncupativus adj (so named)
Macedonian
1 entries- таканаречен adj (so named)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- såkalt adj (so named)
- såkalt adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- такволани adj (so named)
Persian
3 entries- به اصطلاح adj (so named)
- به اصطلاح adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- کذایی adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Polish
3 entries- rzekomy adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- tak zwany adj (so named)
- tak zwany adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Portuguese
4 entries- assim chamado adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- chamado adj (so named)
- chamado adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- dito adj (so named)
Romanian
3 entries- așa-numit adj (so named)
- așa-zis adj (so named)
- așa-zis adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Russian
4 entries- т.н. adj (so named)
- т.н. adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- так называ́емый adj (so named)
- так называ́емый adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- takòzvānī adj (so named)
- takòzvānī adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- тако̀зва̄нӣ adj (so named)
- тако̀зва̄нӣ adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Sindhi
1 entries- نام نهاد adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Slovak
1 entries- takzvaný adj (so named)
Slovene
2 entries- tako imenovan adj (so named)
- tako imenovan adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Spanish
4 entries- (ansí) llamado adj (so named)
- denominado adj (so named)
- dizque adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- presunto adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Swedish
2 entries- så kallad adj (so named)
- så kallad adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Tibetan
4 entries- གྲག་པའི adj (so named)
- གྲག་པའི adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- ཅེས་བྱ་བ adj (so named)
- ཅེས་བྱ་བ adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Turkish
1 entries- sözde adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Ukrainian
4 entries- т.з. adj (so named)
- т.з. adj (so named, but wrongly so)
- так зва́ний adj (so named)
- так зва́ний adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cái gọi là adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַזוי גערופֿן adj (so named, but wrongly so)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
So-called trade friction could be avoided some day.
Source: tatoeba (65775)
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
Source: tatoeba (67741)
That politician has come down in the world since the so-called "Recruit scandal" was publicized.
Source: tatoeba (68049)
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