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fallacious
adjective
1 fallacious
Containing or based on a fallacy:
— Fallacious reasoning.
synonym: unsound.
Roget 477:
intuitive,
instinctive,
impulsive;
independent of reason,
anterior to reason;
gratuitous,
hazarded;
unconnected.
unreasonable,
illogical,
false,
unsound,
invalid;
unwarranted,
not following;
inconsequent,
inconsequential;
inconsistent;
absonous†,
absonant†;
unscientific;
untenable,
inconclusive,
incorrect;
fallacious,
fallible;
groundless,
unproved;
non sequitur [Lat.],
it does not follow.
deceptive,
sophistical,
jesuitical;
illusive,
illusory;
specious,
hollow,
plausible,
ad captandum [Lat.],
evasive;
irrelevant
etc.
10.
weak,
feeble,
poor,
flimsy,
loose,
vague.
irrational;
nonsensical
etc.
(absurd)
497.
foolish
etc.
(imbecile)
499;
frivolous,
pettifogging,
quibbling;
finespun†,
overrefined†.
at the end of one's tether,
au bout de son latin.
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Roget 495:
erroneous,
untrue,
false,
devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal,
unreal,
ungrounded,
groundless;
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
heretical
etc.
(heterodox)
984;
unsound;
illogical
etc.
477.
inexact,
unexact inaccurate†,
incorrect;
indefinite
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
illusive,
illusory;
delusive;
mock,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
spurious
etc.
545;
deceitful
etc.
544;
perverted.
controvertible,
unsustainable;
unauthenticated,
untrustworthy.
exploded,
refuted;
discarded.
in error,
under an error
etc.
n.;
mistaken
etc.
v.;
tripping
etc.
v.;
out,
out in one's reckoning;
aberrant;
beside the mark,
wide of the mark,
wide of the truth,
way off,
far off;
astray
etc.
(at fault)
475;
on a false scent,
on the wrong scent;
in the wrong box,
outside the ballpark;
at cross purposes,
all in the wrong;
all out.
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2 fallacious
3 fallacious
Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information.
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