381 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ spjˈʊɹɪəs], [ spjˈʊɹɪəs], [ s_p_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]

Similar words for spurious:

• affected (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• apocryphal (adjective)
• artificial (adjective)
• assumed (adjective)
• bastard (adjective)
• bogus (adjective)
• counterfeit (adjective)
• counterfeit, fake (adjective)
• deceptive (adjective)
• delusive (adjective)
• erroneous (adjective)
• fake (adjective)
• fallacious (adjective)
• false (adjective)
• fictitious (adjective)
• fraudulent (adjective)
• hypocritical (adjective)
• illegitimate (adjective)
• illogical (adjective)
• invented (adjective)
• la-di-da (adjective)
• mendacious (adjective)
• meretricious (adjective)
• misbegotten (adjective)
• misleading (adjective)
• mock (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• pharisaic (adjective)
• phony (adjective)
• pretended (adjective)
• sham (adjective)
• substitute (adjective)
• unfounded (adjective)
• untrue (adjective)
• wrong (adjective)
• counterfeit (noun)
• imitative (noun)
• invalid (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• artificial
• lying

Paraphrases for spurious

Homophones for spurious

Synonyms for Spurious:

• adj.

  • affected (adjective)
  • in sincere,
  • shallower,
  • in sincerest,
  • hamest,
  • most put on,
  • most put-on,
  • in-sincerest,
  • frauder,
  • more puton,
  • in-sincere,
  • hammiest,
  • fraudest,
  • high falutin',
  • hamer,
  • hammier,
  • ostentatious,
  • more put on,
  • schmaltzy,
  • shallow,
  • most playacting,
  • most counterfeited,
  • fraud,
  • un-natural,
  • over done,
  • more faked,
  • more counterfeited,
  • more playacting,
  • in-sincerer,
  • more affected,
  • selfconscious,
  • over-done,
  • in sincerer,
  • most faked,
  • most puton,
  • more put-on,
  • un natural,
  • self conscious,
  • puton.
  • all (adjective)
  • spurious.
  • apocryphal (adjective)
  • unauthenticated,
  • ungenuine.
  • artificial (adjective)
  • most fabricated,
  • most falsie,
  • un-real,
  • more falsie,
  • un real,
  • more fabricated.
  • assumed (adjective)
  • most imitation,
  • made up,
  • madeup,
  • more imitation,
  • makebelieve.
  • bastard (adjective)
  • mis-born,
  • most misborn,
  • mis born,
  • more mongrel,
  • impure,
  • more misborn,
  • most mongrel,
  • most inferior.
  • bogus (adjective)
  • not what is cracked up be,
  • dummier,
  • not what is cracked up to be,
  • not what is cracked be,
  • dummiest,
  • not what it is cracked to be,
  • not what is cracked to be,
  • not what it is cracked up be,
  • not what it is cracked be.
  • counterfeit (adjective)
  • planter,
  • more hollywood,
  • wont fly,
  • most hollywood,
  • plantest,
  • twofaced,
  • most pirate,
  • pirate,
  • more pirate,
  • snide,
  • crockest,
  • two faced.
  • counterfeit, fake (adjective)
  • deceitful,
  • faked,
  • framed,
  • contrived,
  • imitation,
  • pretend,
  • assumed,
  • bent,
  • unreal,
  • substitute,
  • bum,
  • dummy,
  • make-believe,
  • put-on.
  • deceptive (adjective)
  • seeming,
  • Imposturous,
  • delusive,
  • Astucious.
  • delusive (adjective)
  • visionary.
  • erroneous (adjective)
  • all wet,
  • all off,
  • wrong number,
  • flawed,
  • way off,
  • inexact.
  • fake (adjective)
  • more reproduction,
  • more concocted,
  • re-production,
  • most concocted,
  • fakest,
  • most reproduction,
  • re production.
  • fallacious (adjective)
  • more ungrounded,
  • un-grounded,
  • most sophistical,
  • more sophistical,
  • most ungrounded,
  • un grounded,
  • in correct,
  • in-correct,
  • un reasoned,
  • un reasonable,
  • more reasonless,
  • most reasonless,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-reasoned.
  • false (adjective)
  • off the mark,
  • casuistic,
  • contrary to fact,
  • cooked-up,
  • Misrepresentative.
  • fictitious (adjective)
  • fictional,
  • figmental,
  • invented,
  • trumped-up.
  • fraudulent (adjective)
  • doubledealing,
  • dis-honorable,
  • most swindling,
  • more bamboozling,
  • dis honorable,
  • more swindling,
  • most bamboozling.
  • hypocritical (adjective)
  • more dissembling,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • jivier,
  • smooth tongued,
  • jiviest,
  • self righteous,
  • smooth spoken,
  • more feigning,
  • pietistic,
  • more caviling,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • hypo-critical,
  • most feigning,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • most moralistic,
  • smoothspoken,
  • selfrighteous,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • more moralistic,
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • lefthanded,
  • left handed,
  • smoothtongued,
  • most dissembling,
  • most caviling,
  • feigning,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • hypo critical.
  • illegitimate (adjective)
  • un constitutional,
  • un sanctioned,
  • un-sanctioned,
  • illegal,
  • un-authorized,
  • most unsanctioned,
  • more unsanctioned,
  • un-lawful,
  • un-constitutional,
  • un authorized,
  • un lawful.
  • illogical (adjective)
  • in conclusive,
  • more self contradictory,
  • un-substantial,
  • in consistent,
  • irrelevant,
  • in-congruous,
  • self contradictory,
  • un-scientific,
  • un-connected,
  • more selfcontradictory,
  • unproved,
  • most self contradictory,
  • selfcontradictory,
  • meaningless,
  • most self-contradictory,
  • in-consequent,
  • un substantial,
  • in-consistent,
  • in congruous,
  • most selfcontradictory,
  • un scientific,
  • un tenable,
  • off wall,
  • in consequent,
  • un-proved,
  • un proved,
  • more self-contradictory,
  • in-conclusive,
  • un-tenable,
  • un connected,
  • off the wall.
  • invented (adjective)
  • in vented,
  • in-vented.
  • la-di-da (adjective)
  • la di da.
  • mendacious (adjective)
  • fibbing,
  • Perjured.
  • meretricious (adjective)
  • more tinsel,
  • tinsel,
  • most tinsel.
  • misbegotten (adjective)
  • unrespectable.
  • misleading (adjective)
  • more bewildering,
  • most confounding,
  • more confounding,
  • mis-leading,
  • more demagogic,
  • more distracting,
  • be wildering,
  • be-wildering,
  • most casuistical,
  • most bewildering,
  • mis leading,
  • more casuistical,
  • most demagogic,
  • most distracting.
  • mock (adjective)
  • more mimic,
  • most mimic.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • misbegotten,
  • Truthless,
  • sophistic,
  • self-contradictory,
  • la-di-da,
  • bogus,
  • Misborn,
  • erroneous,
  • pharisaical,
  • not genuine,
  • apparently right,
  • jivey,
  • hammy,
  • meretricious,
  • hypocritical,
  • bastard,
  • out of line,
  • pseudonymous,
  • not real,
  • unloyal,
  • false,
  • moralistic,
  • Crocker,
  • smooth-spoken,
  • tricker,
  • faux,
  • soft shell,
  • not legit,
  • ersatz,
  • counterfeit,
  • wrong,
  • without basis,
  • artificial,
  • Double dealing,
  • campiest,
  • without foundation,
  • demagogic,
  • baseborn,
  • not following,
  • suppositious,
  • misleading,
  • pretended,
  • pseudo,
  • casuistical,
  • fallacious,
  • fictitious,
  • hyped up,
  • ungrounded,
  • not kosher,
  • specious,
  • high falutin,
  • won't fly,
  • fraudulent,
  • apocryphal,
  • campy,
  • phony,
  • imprecise,
  • not what it is cracked up to be,
  • reasonless,
  • campier,
  • manmade,
  • unsanctioned,
  • forged,
  • sophistical,
  • affected,
  • supposititious,
  • unfounded,
  • illegitimate.
  • pharisaic (adjective)
  • pharisaic.
  • phony (adjective)
  • trickest.
  • pretended (adjective)
  • masked,
  • Impostrous.
  • sham (adjective)
  • more plaster,
  • most plaster.
  • substitute (adjective)
  • replacement,
  • proxier,
  • vicarial,
  • Substitutive.
  • unfounded (adjective)
  • unproven,
  • off-base,
  • Foundationless.
  • untrue (adjective)
  • un-trustworthy,
  • Forsworn,
  • un truest,
  • un loyal,
  • un-true,
  • out line,
  • dis-loyal,
  • in-constant,
  • un faithful,
  • un truer,
  • un-truer,
  • more unloyal,
  • more forsworn,
  • un-truest,
  • dis loyal,
  • un-loyal,
  • un-faithful,
  • most unloyal,
  • most forsworn,
  • un true,
  • most imprecise.
  • wrong (adjective)
  • not working,
  • Misconstrued,
  • in error,
  • misfigured,
  • not right,
  • off-target,
  • fluffed,
  • on the wrong track,
  • not precise.

• n.

  •
  • insincere,
  • pretentious,
  • sugary,
  • hollow,
  • studied,
  • disingenuous.
  •
  • correct,
  • unsound.
  •
  • untrue.
  • counterfeit (noun)
  • study at artificial.
  • imitative (noun)
  • imitative.
  • invalid (noun)
  • invalid.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • bastardly,
  • sham,
  • inauthentic,
  • unauthentic,
  • adulterine,
  • feigned,
  • mock,
  • deceptive,
  • simulated,
  • misbegot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • counterfactual.
  •
  • illogical,
  • untruthful.
  •
  • fake,
  • unlawful.
  •
  • law,
  • kin,
  • natural.
  • artificial
  • unnatural.
  • lying
  • mendacious.

Paraphrases for Spurious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    bogus, fallacious, false.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    deceptive, disingenuous, dummy, erroneous, fictive, flawed, forged, fraudulent, hypocritical, illegitimate, illusory, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, misguided, misleading, mock, parasite, parasitic, phoney, phony, simulated, unfounded, unjustified, unreasonable, untrue, unwarranted, wrong, Falsified, Non-essential.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    counterfeit, fake, fictional, fictitious, incorrect, mistaken, sham, trumped-up, untruthful.

Homophones for Spurious:

• shipwreck, saprozoic, soap-rock, schipperke, sparge, spraguea, spark, sverige, sporozoa, saxifraga, sphaeriaceae, spore case, sea-purse, sprig, spore sac, sparaxis, suppress, spheric, scabrous, ski parka, spruce, saber saw, spurge, sprog, sage brush, superhighway, sassafras, saporous, suffrage, Sea purse, saxifragaceae, spork, Severo Ochoa, superego, sparse, seaborg, sagebrush, sheep frog, sparrow hawk, sea breeze, soaprock, shagbark, super C, sub-rosa, sprag, saxifrage.