Defenition of the word specious

• Defenition of the word specious

  • Seemingly factual but actually misleading.
  • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
  • plausible but false; "a specious claim"
  • plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
  • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
  • plausible but false

Synonyms for the word specious

• • gilded
  • meretricious
  • spurious

Similar words in the specious

• • false
  • insincere
  • invalid

See other words

• • What is special law
  • The definition of special delivery
  • The interpretation of the word spear point
  • What is meant by spear phishing
  • The lexical meaning spear mint
  • The dictionary meaning of the word speak on the phone
  • The grammatical meaning of the word spawning ground
  • Meaning of the word spationaut
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word spatial
  • The origin of the word spectacled
  • Synonym for the word spectral band
  • Antonyms for the word spectrophotometer
  • Homonyms for the word spectrophotometric
  • Hyponyms for the word spectrophotometry
  • Holonyms for the word spectroscopy
  • Hypernyms for the word speculaas
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word specular
  • Translation of the word in other languages specularity