titular

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of TITULAR

being something in name or form only <he's the titular head of the department, though it's the assistant managers who largely run things around here>

Synonyms formal, paper, titular

Related Words so-called; phantom, virtual; apparent, assumed, evident, ostensible, presumed, seeming, supposed

Near Antonyms actual, real, true

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