1
[ adjective ] plausible but false

Examples

"a specious claim"

Related terms

false

2
[ adjective ] plausible but false

Synonyms

spurious

Examples

"specious reasoning" "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert

Related terms

invalid

3
[ adjective ] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

Synonyms

meretricious gilded

Examples

"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility" "meretricious praise" "a meretricious argument"

Related terms

insincere

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Rhymes with

auspicious suspicious spacious facetious superstitious surreptitious capricious seditious repetitious propitious expeditious vicious pernicious precious ceraceous conscientious cautious gracious predaceous vexatious ambitious judicious injudicious fictitious precocious factitious delicious nutritious nauseous semiprecious capacious malicious noxious loquacious herbaceous ignatius audacious precocious overambitious conscious salacious sebaceous fractious tenacious voracious flirtatious vivacious fallacious efficacious ostentatious rambunctious anxious infectious obnoxious ferocious atrocious pretentious contentious subconscious unconscious tendentious unpretentious anxious confucius

Phonetic and Homophones

S P IY1 SH AH0 S

Similar Spelling

speciously spacious spaciously Sphecius species

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