'Fallacious' definitions:
Definition of 'fallacious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" [syn: fallacious, unsound]
adjective
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]
adjective
Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
Definition of 'Fallacious'
From: GCIDE
- Fallacious \Fal*la"cious\, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F. fallacieux. See Fallacy.] Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- {Fal*la"cious*ly}, adv. -{Fal*la"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fallacious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- absonant,
- adrift,
- airy,
- Albigensian,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- antinomian,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- Arian,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- Catharist,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- contradictory,
- contrary to fact,
- contrary to reason,
- corrupt,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disingenuous,
- distorted,
- Donatist,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- Ebionitist,
- emanationist,
- empty,
- Erastian,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- false,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- Gnostic,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hollow,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in error,
- inauthentic,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- insincere,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- jesuitic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- loose,
- mad,
- Manichaean,
- misleading,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- nonorthodox,
- nonrational,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- paralogical,
- peccant,
- Pelagian,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- questionable,
- reasonless,
- Sabellian,
- seeming,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- unaccepted,
- unactual,
- unapproved,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- unconnected,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unphilosophical,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unreasonable,
- unscientific,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- visionary,
- Waldensian,
- wide,
- without reason,
- wrong,
- Wyclifite