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specious
Overview of adj specious
The adj specious has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. specious, spurious -- (plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences")
2. gilded, meretricious, specious -- (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")
Grep of noun specious
specious argument
speciousness
Antonyms of adj specious
2 senses of specious
Sense 1
specious, spurious
INDIRECT (VIA false) -> true
Sense 2
gilded, meretricious, specious
INDIRECT (VIA insincere) -> sincere
Similarity of adj specious
2 senses of specious
Sense 1
specious, spurious
=> false (vs. true)
Sense 2
gilded, meretricious, specious
=> insincere (vs. sincere)
Pertainyms of adj specious
Attributes of adj specious
Domain of adj specious
Domain Terms of adj specious
Familiarity of adj specious
specious used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj specious
specious
Grep of adv specious
speciously
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