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spurious |
Grep of noun spurious spurious correlation spurious wing spuriousness Overview of adj spurious The adj spurious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. specious, spurious -- (plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert) 2. bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious -- (born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman) 3. inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious -- (intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art") Antonyms of adj spurious 3 senses of spurious Sense 1 specious, spurious INDIRECT (VIA invalid) -> valid Sense 2 bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious INDIRECT (VIA illegitimate) -> legitimate Sense 3 inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious INDIRECT (VIA counterfeit) -> genuine, echt Similarity of adj spurious 3 senses of spurious Sense 1 specious, spurious => invalid (vs. valid) Sense 2 bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious => illegitimate (vs. legitimate) Sense 3 inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious => counterfeit (vs. genuine), imitative Attributes of adj spurious Familiarity of adj spurious spurious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj spurious spurious Overview of adj spurious The adj spurious has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. specious, spurious -- (plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert) 2. bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious -- (born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman) 3. inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious -- (intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art")
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