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

1. adjective. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
2. adjective. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
3. adjective. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

   "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

   "meretricious praise"

   Synonyms: gilded, meretricious

4. adjective. plausible but false

   "a specious claim"

   "spurious inferences"

   Synonyms: spurious

Synonyms

gilded, meretricious, spurious

Common word forms

speciously, speciousness

Words from these letters

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