fallacious

fallacious is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
2. adjective. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information

   "fallacious hope"

3. adjective. intended to deceive - S.T.Coleridge

   "deceitful advertising"

   "fallacious testimony"

   Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent

4. adjective. containing or based on a fallacy

   "fallacious reasoning"

   "an unsound argument"

   Synonyms: unsound

Synonyms

deceitful, fraudulent, unsound

Common word forms

fallaciously, fallaciousness

Words from these letters

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