Apocryphal New Testament

Recently Ive been studied in other gospels that didn't do it in the Holy Bible. They are called "apocraphal" wills and I thought that word meant "believe", but reading some of these gospels Im seeing much similarity with the gospels that do get into the Bible. What exactly say apocraphal? Is it true or not.

In general usage, "apocryphal" means what you think it means.

In biblical usage, Apocrypha does not belong to the canon. The apocryphal books are those that the people compiling the Bible does not understand.

It is difficult to say what the information in one book, apocryphal or canonical, is true and what the information is false. These documents are old little corroborating evidence.

It simply means that they are books that never made in the barrel (ie church-sanctioned and approved) version of the Bible. I think generally it is because the stories contain no reference to God or Jesus, or conflict with the morality that the Catholic Church teaches.