spurious

Meaning of spurious

adjective
  1. False, not authentic, not genuine.
    His argument was spurious and had no validity.
  2. Extraneous; stray; not relevant or wanted.
    I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
  3. Bastardly, illegitimate

Information about spurious

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of spurious

spu-ri-ous

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • spurious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

spurious synonyms

Meaning specious:

specious

Meaning bastardly:

bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten

Meaning inauthentic:

inauthentic, unauthentic

Meaning :

bogus, counterfeit, fake, false

spurious antonyms

Meaning :

genuine, representative

Words that rhyme with spurious

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