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All fallacious synonyms

fal·la·cious
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adjective fallacious

  • erroneous — Wrong; incorrect.
  • false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
  • wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • deceiving — Present participle of deceive.
  • deluding — Present participle of delude.

adj fallacious

  • deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
  • delusive — tending to delude; misleading
  • fictitious — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
  • fishy — like a fish in shape, smell, taste, or the like.
  • fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
  • illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
  • incorrect — not correct as to fact; inaccurate; wrong: an incorrect statement.
  • invalid — an infirm or sickly person.
  • irrational — without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason.
  • mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
  • mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
  • off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
  • phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  • unfounded — without foundation; not based on fact, realistic considerations, or the like: unfounded suspicions.
  • unreal — not real or actual.
  • unreasonable — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • unsound — not sound; unhealthy, diseased, or disordered, as the body or mind.
  • untrue — not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard.
  • delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
  • sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • unreasoned — inability or unwillingness to think or act rationally, reasonably, or sensibly; irrationality.
  • beguiling — Something that is beguiling is charming and attractive.
  • reasonless — not having any reason or sense: an utterly reasonless display of anger.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
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