fallacious

Speech parts

1. fallacious - Adjective

2. fallacious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fraudulent deceitful unsound salah off unreal illusive false wrong incorrect mistaken invalid misleading inaccurate improper
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Antonyms

foursquare knoll right just certain particular
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Related terms

failure false fail fallacy falsity falsification

Phrases with the word

fallacious argument not fallacious less fallacious

Examples

There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely. Carl Menger

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. Sydney Smith

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Hypatia

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Carl Sagan

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi

Close letter words and terms

fall-out shelter Falla Fallacara fallacious argument fallaciously fallaciousness