| Main Entry: | sophistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fallacious |
Synonyms: |
beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, false, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony*, reasonless, sophistical, specious, spurious, unfounded, ungrounded, unreal, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound, untrue, way off |
| Main Entry: | fallacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, wrong |
Synonyms: |
beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, spurious, unfounded, ungrounded, unreal, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound, untrue, way off |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
Antonyms: |
correct, real, true, truthful |
| Main Entry: | illogical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not making sense |
Synonyms: |
absurd, casuistic, cockeyed, fallacious, false, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless, not following, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spurious, unconnected, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unsubstantial, untenable, wacky, without basis, without foundation |
Antonyms: |
correct, logical, meaningful, rational, reasonable, right, sensible |
| Main Entry: | invalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthless; unfounded |
Synonyms: |
bad, baseless, fallacious, false, ill-founded, illogical, inoperative, irrational, mad, not binding, not working, nugatory, null, null and void, reasonless, sophistic, unreasonable, unreasoned, unscientific, unsound, untrue, void, wrong |
Antonyms: |
sound, valid, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | irrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illogical, senseless |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, absurd, brainless, cockamamie, crazy, delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious, flaky*, foolish, freaky, incoherent, injudicious, insane, invalid, kooky, loony, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty, off-the-wall, preposterous, raving, reasonless, ridiculous, silly, sophistic, specious, stupid, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, unstable, unthinking, unwise, wacky*, wild, wrong |
Antonyms: |
logical, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible, sound, stable |
| Main Entry: | specious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | misleading |
Synonyms: |
apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious, casuistic, colorable, credible, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely, nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable, presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical, sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong |
Antonyms: |
real, true, valid |
| Main Entry: | quibbling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trifling |
Synonyms: |
captious, casuistic, caviling, elusive, evasive, hairsplitting, prevaricative, sophistic, sophistical |