Meanings
- not comparableResembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.
2000, Henry Martyn Robert with Sarah Corbin Robert, Robert's Rules of Order, 10th revised edition, page 5222 more examples
So in summation gentlemen. What you have before you is a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi tank that has less armor than a snowblower, god has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.
1998, The Pentagon WarsIn a quasi experiment, the likelihood of a viewer of short video abandoning earlier than a similar viewer of a long video exceeded the likelihood that the opposite happens by 11.5%.
2012 December 28, S. Shunmuga Krishnan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, “Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs”, in CNN en Español, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2026, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving some resemblance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinquasi“as if”
- Englishquasi
Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian почти, полу
- почти (počti)showing likeness
- полу (polu)showing likeness
Danish kvasi-
- kvasi-showing likeness
Dutch quasi-
- quasi-showing likeness
Esperanto kvazaŭ
- kvazaŭshowing likeness
German quasi
- quasishowing likeness
Greek οιονεί
- οιονεί (oioneí)showing likeness
Italian quasi
- quasishowing likeness
Norwegian kvasi-
- kvasi-showing likeness
Slovak kvázi
- kvázishowing likeness
Spanish cuasi
- cuasishowing likeness
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with quasi
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Cite this entry
quasi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quasi
“quasi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quasi. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quasi,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quasi.
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