1. (a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince\.

2. (n.) A titulary.

byname cognominal diminutive epithetic formal honorific hypocoristic in name only nominal nominative putative quasi self-called self-christened self-styled so-called soi-disant theoretical titulary token would-be