Synonyms for fallacious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fuh-ley-shuh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : fəˈleɪ ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for fallacious Other synonyms for the word fallacious
Définition of fallacious
Origin :- c.1500, from fallacy (Latin fallacia) + -ous. Related: Fallaciously; fallaciousness.
- adj false, wrong
- Still, through this fallacious medium, a real enlargement of ideas is attained.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Only what must be avoided are fallacious inferences, my dear Lena—especially at this hour.
- Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
- Political reconciliations are but outward and hollow, and fallacious.
- Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman
- There has never been a religion too gross, too fallacious, to fail of followers.
- Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland
- No compromise for him, no evasions, no fallacious, unsecured promises to pay.
- Extract from : « Dream Days » by Kenneth Grahame
- The consolations of philosophy are very amusing, but often fallacious.
- Extract from : « The Vicar of Wakefield » by Oliver Goldsmith
- Before two days, however, had passed these hopes were found to be fallacious.
- Extract from : « The Heir of Kilfinnan » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Perhaps so; but you will think it very frail and fallacious.
- Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Of all deductions, those drawn from etymological comparisons are, perhaps, the most fallacious.
- Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow
- But the reasoning from such to the great mass of mankind, is most fallacious.
- Extract from : « Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments » by Various
Antonyms for fallacious
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