What is another word for spurious?
303 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ spjˈʊɹɪəs], [ spjˈʊɹɪəs], [ s_p_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]Table of Contents
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)
- pharisaic (adjective)
- phony (adjective)
- pretended (adjective)
- sham (adjective)
- substitute (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- untrue (adjective)
- wrong (adjective)
- counterfeit (noun)
- imitative (noun)
- invalid (noun)
- other synonyms
- artificial
- lying
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.
- 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.
- planter,
- more hollywood,
- wont fly,
- most hollywood,
- plantest,
- twofaced,
- most pirate,
- pirate,
- more pirate,
- snide,
- crockest,
- two faced.
- deceitful,
- faked,
- framed,
- contrived,
- imitation,
- pretend,
- assumed,
- bent,
- unreal,
- substitute,
- bum,
- dummy,
- make-believe,
- put-on.
- more reproduction,
- more concocted,
- re-production,
- most concocted,
- fakest,
- most reproduction,
- re production.
- 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.
- doubledealing,
- dis-honorable,
- most swindling,
- more bamboozling,
- dis honorable,
- more swindling,
- most bamboozling.
- 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.
- un constitutional,
- un sanctioned,
- un-sanctioned,
- illegal,
- un-authorized,
- most unsanctioned,
- more unsanctioned,
- un-lawful,
- un-constitutional,
- un authorized,
- un lawful.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- insincere,
- pretentious,
- sugary,
- hollow,
- studied,
- disingenuous.
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- untrue.
Other synonyms:
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- illogical,
- untruthful.
Paraphrases for Spurious:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
false, fallacious, bogus.
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Independent
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Adjective
erroneous, illegitimate, disingenuous, misleading, hypocritical, untrue, illusory, fraudulent, unjustified, unfounded, inaccurate, phony, improper, deceptive, wrong, unwarranted, Falsified, Non-essential, misguided, dummy, forged, mock, phoney, parasitic, unreasonable, inappropriate, parasite, fictive, simulated, flawed.
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Other Related
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Adjective
fictitious, fake, counterfeit, incorrect, trumped-up, untruthful, sham, fictional, mistaken.
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Antonyms for Spurious:
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Other antonyms:
easy, echt, impulsive, sincere, unaffected, instinctive, realistic, ingenuous, effortless, unrehearsed, extemporaneous, unstudied, spontaneous, unprompted, unpretending, impromptu, unconscious, natural, uncontrived, actual, artless, unfeigned, unforced, smooth.
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nonimitative, representative.
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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.