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specious |
Grep of noun specious specious argument speciousness Overview of adj specious The adj specious 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. specious -- (plausible but false; "a specious claim") 3. gilded, meretricious, specious -- (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument") Antonyms of adj specious 3 senses of specious Sense 1 specious, spurious INDIRECT (VIA invalid) -> valid Sense 2 specious INDIRECT (VIA false) -> true Sense 3 gilded, meretricious, specious INDIRECT (VIA insincere) -> sincere Similarity of adj specious 3 senses of specious Sense 1 specious, spurious => invalid (vs. valid) Sense 2 specious => false (vs. true) Sense 3 gilded, meretricious, specious => insincere (vs. sincere) Attributes of adj specious Familiarity of adj specious specious used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj specious specious Overview of adj specious The adj specious 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. specious -- (plausible but false; "a specious claim") 3. gilded, meretricious, specious -- (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")
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