Synonyms for Specious

Synonyms for "specious" (103 found)

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Closest matches (21)

Strong matches (31)

conceivable deceptive delusional delusionary delusive delusory dereistic disingenuous dreamlike dreamy empty erroneous fallacious false fantastic fantastical faulty gilded hollow hypocritical

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idle illogical illusional illusionary illusive illusory imaginary in name only

Adjective(1 words)

fallacious

Adjective(2 words)

gilded glossy

Related words (51)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Synonyms

1 entries

spurious

Related terms

2 entries

speciosity spurious

derived

4 entries

specious present specious tiger speciously speciousness

related to

12 entries

appearance attractive beautiful deceitful deceptive fallacious favorable reasoned speciosity speciously speciousness true

similar

3 entries

false insincere

Translations

40 translations across 15 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries

благовиден adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
показен adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

似是而非 adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Czech

1 entries

zdánlivý adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Dutch

3 entries

misleidend adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
ongegrond adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
schone schijn adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Esperanto

1 entries

verŝajna adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

French

1 entries

spécieux adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

German

4 entries

Schein adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)
fadenscheinig adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
fadenscheinig adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)
leer adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Italian

1 entries

specioso adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Japanese

2 entries

まことしやかな adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
似て非なる adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Polish

4 entries

bałamutny adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
fałszywy adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)
pokrętny adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
zwodniczy adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Portuguese

1 entries

especioso adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

lȁžan adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
prívidan adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
tòbožnjī adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
vȁrav adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Slovak

1 entries

zdanlivý adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Spanish

4 entries

de pretexto adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)
especioso adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
falso adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)
fingido adj (with appearance intended to generate a favorable response)

Turkish

2 entries

aldatıcı adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)
yanıltıcı adj (seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

That's specious reasoning.

Source: tatoeba (10309048)

Tom's arguments are entirely specious.

Source: tatoeba (10309049)

Residents said the bill would open the door to specious accusations against dissidents, religious figures, businessmen and others.

Source: tatoeba (10309050)

This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.

Source: wiktionary

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