specious

Meaning of specious

adjective
  1. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
    This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
  2. Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
  3. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
  4. Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

Information about specious

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Hyphenation of specious

spe-cious

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • specious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

specious synonyms

Meaning spurious:

spurious

Meaning gilded:

gilded, meretricious

Meaning :

fallacious, insincere

Translation of specious

Words that rhyme with specious

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