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Fallacious Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Fallacious? [adj] based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope" [adj] intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [adj] containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Fallacious: deceitful \| dishonest \| dishonorable \| fraudulent \| incorrect \| invalid \| unsound \| wrong Related Terms \| Find terms related to Fallacious: aberrant \| abroad \| absonant \| adrift \| airy \| Albigensian \| all abroad \| all off \| all wrong \| amiss \| antinomian \| apocryphal \| apparent \| apparently sound \| apparitional \| Arian \| askew \| astray \| at fault \| autistic \| awry \| Barmecidal \| Barmecide \| beguiling \| beside the mark \| casuistic \| catchy \| Catharist \| chimeric \| colorable \| contradictory \| contrary to fact \| contrary to reason \| corrupt \| deceiving \| deceptive \| defective \| deluding \| delusional \| delusionary \| delusive \| delusory \| dereistic \| deviant \| deviational \| deviative \| disingenuous \| distorted \| Donatist \| dreamlike \| dreamy \| dubious \| Ebionitist \| emanationist \| empty \| Erastian \| errant \| erring \| erroneous \| false \| fantastic \| faultful \| faulty \| fishy \| flawed \| Gnostic \| hallucinatory \| heretical \| heterodox \| hollow \| hylotheist \| hylotheistic \| illogical \| illusional \| illusionary \| illusive \| illusory \| imaginary \| in error \| inauthentic \| inconclusive \| incongruous \| inconsequent \| inconsequential \| inconsistent \| insincere \| invalid \| irrational \| Jansenist \| Jansenistic \| jesuitic \| Jovinianist \| Jovinianistic \| Lollard \| loose \| mad \| Manichaean \| misleading \| Monophysite \| Monophysitic \| Montanist \| Montanistic \| nonorthodox \| nonrational \| nonscientific \| not following \| not right \| not true \| off \| off the track \| ostensible \| out \| overrefined \| oversubtle \| pantheist \| pantheistic \| paralogical \| peccant \| Pelagian \| perverse \| perverted \| phantasmagoric \| phantasmal \| phantom \| philosophistic \| plausible \| questionable \| reasonless \| Sabellian \| seeming \| self-annulling \| self-contradictory \| self-deceptive \| self-deluding \| self-refuting \| senseless \| sophistic \| sophistical \| specious \| spectral \| straying \| supposititious \| trickish \| tricksy \| tricky \| truthless \| unaccepted \| unactual \| unapproved \| unauthentic \| unauthoritative \| uncanonical \| unconnected \| unfactual \| unfounded \| unorthodox \| unphilosophical \| unproved \| unreal \| unreasonable \| unscientific \| unscriptural \| unsound \| unsubstantial \| untrue \| visionary \| Waldensian \| wide \| without reason \| wrong \| Wyclifite See Also \| Fallacious In Webster's Dictionary \Falla"cious\, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F. fallacieux. See {Fallacy}.] Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- {Falla"ciously}, adv. -{Falla"cious*ness}, n.

Fallacious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fallacious?

[adj] based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
[adj] intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
[adj] containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"

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Fallacious In Webster's Dictionary

\Fal*la"cious\, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf.
F. fallacieux. See {Fallacy}.]
Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to
deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or
reasoning. -- {Fal*la"cious*ly}, adv. -{Fal*la"cious*ness},
n.

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