Paper
Paper adjective - Being something in name or form only.
Usage example: there's a paper boycott of that company's products that nobody seems to be honoring
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Synonyms for Paper
So-called and paper are semantically related. In some cases you can use "So-called" instead an adjective "Paper".
So-called
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While not always a board game (in fact, it's usually drawn with paper and pencil), a so-called "double-trap" in Tic-tac-toe is one of the most obvious Xanatos gambits.
Source: Xanatos Gambit -
Rare Vehicles: Similar to World of Tanks, World of Warships has a number of ships to help fill out the tech trees that never made made it past either the blueprints, prototype, or cancelled further production while being made, so-called "Paper Designs".
Source: Video Game / World Of Warships - The Australian electoral system, which combines compulsory voting with a preferential voting system, has the problem of so-called "donkey voting", where people alienated from the political system simply write one-two-three-four-five... in the boxes on the ballot paper from top to bottom.
Source: Default Setting Syndrome
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So-called and Paper. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/paper/so-called
Paper & So-called. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/paper/so-called>.
So-called or Paper. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/paper/so-called.
