fallacious
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fallacious; equivalent to fallacy + -ous.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fallacious (comparative more fallacious, superlative most fallacious)
- Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
- Deceptive or misleading.
- Synonyms: deceitful, deceiving, mendacious, misdirective
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[edit]Nouns often used with "fallacious"
argument, notion, reasoning, etc.
Translations
[edit]characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken
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deceptive or misleading
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fallacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “fallacious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “fallacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Middle English
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[edit]fallacious
- fallacious
- [1473 or 1474], The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, Composed and Drawen out of Dyuerce Bookes of Latyn in to Frensshe, [Bruges]: [William Caxton and, probably, Colard Mansion]:
- And I shall not assoylle oonly oon of thy sophymes / but as many as thou canst thynke / and wole well that thou knowe that yf by force of thy sophymes and fallacious argumentes thou make me Innocent / I shall doo vnto the lyke as thou woldest do to me / and yf hit happe that thy scyence may not ouercome me / yet woll I well that thou defende the with armes. and that thou kepe thy lyf as well as thou canst {etc}::. Wyth these wordes the monstre maad vnto hercules seuen sofymes oon after an other so fallacio{us} and fo subtyll / that whan hercules had gyuen solucion to oon / the monstre replyed by seuen argumentes / Allway hercules that was full of philosophie and expert in all scyence. Answerd so solempnly to all his fallacious argumentes that he surmoũted hym
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Descendants
[edit]- English: fallacious
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