Definition for Specious:

• Speciousness.

Synonyms for Specious:

• adj.

  •deceptive (adjective)
  • delusive.
  •delusive (adjective)
  • visionary.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •erroneous (adjective)
  • inaccurate,
  • inexact,
  • flawed.
  •false (adjective)
  • casuistic,
  • sophistical.
  •gilt (adjective)
  • tinsel.
  •meaningless (adjective)
  • hollow.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • flattering,
  • presumable,
  • seeming,
  • credible,
  • captious,
  • incorrect,
  • nugatory,
  • probable,
  • sophisticated,
  • idle,
  • ostentatious,
  • pretentious,
  • presumptive,
  • beguiling,
  • apparently right,
  • vain,
  • empty,
  • likely.
  •ostensible (adjective)
  • alleged,
  • pretended.
  •pharisaic (adjective)
  • pharisaic.
  •spurious (adjective)
  • unauthentic.

• n.

  •
  • apparently,
  • unfounded,
  • doubtful,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • seemingly,
  • supposed,
  • allegedly,
  • speculative,
  • anecdotal.
  •
  • untrue.
  •specious (noun)
  • insincere,
  • invalid.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • counterfactual.
  •
  • untruthful.
  •
  • fallacious.
  •irrational
  • illogical.

Paraphrases for Specious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    fallacious, misleading, deceptive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    false, misguided.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    paradoxical, deceitful, confusing.

Antonyms for Specious:

• adj.

  • misleading
    valid, genuine, honest, right, true, credible, accurate, truthful, correct, real.
  • Other antonyms:
    plain, straight, openhearted, open, foursquare, candid, straightforward, aboveboard, forthright, direct, elucidative, sincere, outspoken, revealing, clarifying, explanatory, trustworthy, free-spoken, plainspoken, frank, revelatory, illuminating.

Homophones for Specious:

• seepage, shoebox, spice cake, scopes, spik, sfax, spica, sops, spacey, specs, show biz, sheepish, spice, spoke, scabious, safe sex, sepsis, spice cookie, subaqueous, suffuse, spook, suffix, scaphiopus, speke, sebaceous, spassky, savage, speech, suppuku, scabies, showpiece, spooky, soapfish, sea-puss, sausage pizza, sow bug, squaw-bush, squawbush, succubus, sabicu, six-pack, sawfish, sick bag, spec, sheep fescue, spiky, species, skivvies, sapsago, speak, scapose, scabiosa, speck, sickbag, sixpack, sapphic, six pack, spock, scyphozoa, schizophyceae, squawk box, suspicious, spicy, sawbuck, subfusc, shavous, squeeze box, soubise, soapbox, swbs, suffice, skipjack, seabag, squash bug, swayback, spike, sea-poose, safaqis, spacious, subbase, scyphus, sebs, sea puss, skybox, spick, sphecius, spic, speakeasy, safe house, specie, sisyphus, spacy, space age, space, sea bass, suppose, skopje, spouse.