fallacious
/fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/
fallacious adjective: characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
Adjective
fallacious (comparative more fallacious, superlative most fallacious)
- Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
- There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 3
- Deceptive or misleading.
- Synonyms:
- deceitful, deceiving, mendacious, misdirective
fallacious meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
fallacious in Tamil
- fallacious
- தீய tīya
fallacious in Urdu
- غلطی پر, پرخطا
fallacious in Malayalam
- false, erroneous, untrue
- മിഥ്യാബോധം ഉളവാക്കുന്ന, ഭ്രമജനകമായ, വഴി തെറ്റിക്കുന്ന, തെറ്റായ, പ്രലോഭകം, വിലോഭകം
Synonyms of fallacious
Antonyms
Forms of fallacious
| comparative | more fallacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fallacious |
Origin of fallacious
From Old French fallacieux (whence -acious), from Latin fallācia, from fallāx, from fallere.
Words formed from fallacious
Words that rhyme with fallacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about fallacious
- What does fallacious mean?
- Fallacious means characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
- What is fallacious in Tamil?
- Fallacious in Tamil is தீய (tīya). See Fallacious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fallacious?
- Fallacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce fallacious?
- Fallacious is pronounced /fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/.
Words near fallacious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fallacious (page history and authors); தீய (Tamil) (page history and authors); fallacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fallacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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