in name

See also: inname

English

Prepositional phrase

in name

1. Nominally, not essentially.

   He is a friend in name only.

   • 1990 Summer, E. Hoyt, “Wild relatives”, in Wilderness, volume 53, number 189, page 45:

     Ethnobotanist Gary P. Nabhan of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix made a painful pilgrimage to see Texas wild-rice for his 1989 book, Enduring Seeds. He called it a surviving species in name more than in behavior.

Derived terms

• DINO
• GINO
• RINO

See also

• de jure
• lapsed

References

• “in name”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Mannie, Minean, Neiman, Nieman, mannie, meanin'