Dictionary Entry
specious
specious is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
- 2adjective
Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
- 3adjective
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
"meretricious praise"
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- 4adjective
plausible but false
"a specious claim"
"spurious inferences"
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