IV. WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES; COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS

III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS

2. Conventional means; language generally

Misnomer.

[Nouns] misnomer; lucus a non lucendo; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em (neologism) [more]; Hoosier.

nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy.

[Verbs] misname, miscall, misterm; nickname; assume a name.

[Adjectives] misnamed; pseudonymous; soi-disant; self called, self styled, self christened; so-called.

nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged.

[Adverbs] in no sense.