Specious

Adjective

 * 1) Seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false.
 * This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
 * 1) Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
 * 2)  Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

Synonyms

 * fallacious, insincere
 * meretricious

Derived terms

 * speciosity
 * speciously
 * speciousness

Thesaurus
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, avowed, beguiling, casuistic, chimeric, claimed, colorable, colored, conceivable, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, gilded, hollow, hypocritical, idle, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in name only, inaccurate, incorrect, insincere, jesuitic, likely, meretricious, misleading, nugatory, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible, possible, presumable, presumed, pretended, pretexted, professed, purported, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, so-called, sophistic, sophistical, spectral, spurious, superficial, supposed, supposititious, tinsel, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, untrue, vain, visionary, wrong

Etymology
From speciōsus "good-looking".

Translations

 * Croatian:, prividan,  ,
 * French: spécieux, spécieuse


 * German: vordergründig,,  unfundiert,

Anagrams

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