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- SPECIOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SPECIOUS is having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic How to use specious in a sentence Did you know?
- SPECIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SPECIOUS definition: 1 seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false: 2 seeming to be right or true, but… Learn more
- SPECIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Specious definition: apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible See examples of SPECIOUS used in a sentence
- SPECIOUS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
The nature versus nurture debate was specious, but not for the reasons he had supposed 2 meanings: 1 apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false 2 deceptively attractive in appearance Click for more definitions
- specious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
specious (comparative more specious, superlative most specious) Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious synonym quotations Synonym: fallacious This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound
- Specious - definition of specious by The Free Dictionary
1 Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument 2 Deceptively appealing: "It is easy enough to give the old idea [of programmatic music] a specious air of modernity" (Aaron Copland)
- Specious - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
Something that is specious is attractive in a deceptive way, and if you follow the word's etymology, you'll see why In Middle English, this adjective meant "attractive," from Latin speciōsus, "showy, beautiful," from speciēs, "appearance, kind, sort "
- specious, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford . . .
There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word specious, four of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
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