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Definitions: Fallacious |
FallaciousAdjective1. Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument". 2. Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes". 3. Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fallacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Etymology: Fallacious \Fal*la"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression fallaciosus, from fallacia: compare to the French expression fallacieux. See Fallacy.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: FallaciousSynonyms: deceitful (adj), fraudulent (adj), unsound (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Error | Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical. |
Reasoning, | Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fallacious |
| English words defined with "fallacious": Elench, Elusory ♦ pseudoscience ♦ Sophister, specious argument. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fallacious": INCOME ♦ Swans ... Geese. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fallacious": frustrative. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Harold Coffin | Feminine logic is fallacious, shallow, inconsistent, irrelevant, capricious, transparent -- and irrefutable. |
Sydney Smith | Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallacious; for, as "Sir Sycophas Chrysolater" in the play has justly remarked, "the true use and function of property (in whatsoever it consisteth -- coins, or land, or houses, or merchant- stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place, and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but to get money. Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end; and their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto, neither the lord of an unproducing manor, howsoever broad and ancient, nor he who bears an unremunerate dignity, nor yet the pauper favorite of a king, being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily accretion; and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious calculations, has disappointed this reasonable anticipation. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Fallacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fallacious" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fallacious": non-fallacious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fallacious | 307 |
definition fallacious | 22 |
argument fallacious | 20 |
define fallacious | 18 |
fallacious meaning | 10 |
fallacious reasoning | 5 |
dictionary fallacious | 4 |
fallacious mean | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fallacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | bedrieglik (deceitful, deceptive, delusive). (various references) | |
Albanian | zhgënjyes (deceptive, disappointing, illusory), i gabuar (Amiss, erroneous, false, faulty, ill-judged, improper, incorrect, mistaken, peccant, perverse, untrue, wet, wrong, wrongful). (various references) | |
Arabic | منطو على مغالطة, وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, false, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грешен (iniquitous, peccant, sinful, unhallowed, unrighteous, wicked, wrong), измамен (deceitful, deceptive, done, double dealing, put-up-on, screwed up, unreal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 谬误. (various references) | |
Czech | klamný (deceptive, delusory, false, illusive, illusory, misleading, untrue). (various references) | |
Dutch | misleidend (deceptive, delusive). (various references) | |
Esperanto | erariga (deceptive, delusive). (various references) | |
Finnish | pettävä (deceitful, deceptive), erehdyttävä (deceptive, misleading). (various references) | |
French | fallacieux, trompeur, illusoire. (various references) | |
German | trügerisch (deceitful, deceptive, delusory, elusive, elusorily, elusory, fallaciously, false, illusionary, illusive, phantasmic, specious, treacherous), irrig (erroneous, erroneously, false, incorrect, incorrectly, misguided, mistaken, wrong). (various references) | |
Greek | απατηλόσ (catchy, colorable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusive, elusory, fraudulent, hollow, illusive, illusory, specious, tricky). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתעתע (cheating, misleading), מוטע" (erroneous, mistaken, wrong), מטע" (delusive, delusory, illusory, misleading, specious). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csalóka (delusive, delusory, elusive, illusive, illusory, misleading, phantasmagoric, vain). (various references) | |
Italian | falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong), fallace (misleading). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 謬説 (fallacious argument, fallacy), 迷論 (absurd opinion, fallacious argument, fallacy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びゅうせつ (fallacious argument, fallacy), めいろ" (absurd opinion, excellent opinion, fallacious argument, fallacy, sound argument). (various references) | |
Manx | molteyragh (captivating, deceptive, fraudulent, insidious), kialgagh (calculated, calculating, circumventory, crafty, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, fly, guileful, illusive, insidious, perfidious, seditious, treacherous, tricky, wily), foalsey (affected, bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, ersatz, false, feigned, forged, hollow, hollow of victory, hypocritical, perfidious, pinchbeck, sham, spurious, substitute, suppositious, tinsel, treacherous, two-faced, wrong, wrong as note). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allaciousfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | levar a fama sem proveito. (various references) | |
Romanian | greşit (abroad, Amiss, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references) | |
Russian | ошибочный (amiss, erroneous, fallible, false, faulty, inaccurate, misguided, mistaken, off-beam, unsound, wrongful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | varljiv (false, illusive, loaded, meretricious, misleading, specious, treacherous, tricky), pogrešan (erroneous, faulty, peccant, wrong). (various references) | |
Spanish | engañoso (deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, false, guileful, misleading, treacherous, wrong). (various references) | |
Swedish | felaktig (defective, erroneous, faulty, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, irregular, mistaken, putrid, vicious, wrong), vilseledande (deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory), bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusive, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งคิ"ไม่ถูกต้อง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yanıltıcı (captious, colorable, elusory, illusive, illusory, misleading, perversive, specious, token), temelsiz (baseless, built on sand, footless, insubstantial, ungrounded, without any foundation, without foundation), safsatalı (casuistic, casuistical, quibbling, sophistic), safsata (casuistry, fallacy, flubdub, jesuitry, nonsense, quiddity, sophism, sophistry), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), aldatici (deceitful, deceptive, delusive), aldatıcı (baffling, beguiling, catchy, colorable, colored, coloured, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, double dealing, elusory, fake, googly, hype, illusive, illusory, indirect, specious, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky). (various references) | |
Ukranian | обманливий (captious, catchy, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, elusory, misleading), помилковий (bad, blundering, erroneous, fallible, faulty, inaccurate, lying, mistaken, peccant, phony, truthless, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trá nguỵ ảo tưởng, lừa dối (deceptive, false, gold brick), gian dối (twisty), dối trá (deceiful, deceptive, double-tongued, false-hearted, forked, treacherous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fallacem, fallacia, fallax, pseudoapostoli, pseudochristi, pseudoprophetes. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fallacious": fallaciously, fallaciousness, fallaciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Fallacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facllacious, falacious, Falakiko, falicious, fallaious, fallatious, fallicious, falllacious, Gallacio, palaious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fallacious" (pronounced fulā"shus) |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u s | salacious. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u s | hellacious. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u s | audacious, capacious, efficacious, flirtatious, gracious, herbaceous, loquacious, ostentatious, predaceous, sebaceous, spacious, tenacious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, auspicious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, ferocious, fictitious, fractious, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, seditious, semiprecious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vicious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-i-l-l-o-s-u" | |
-3 letters: asocial, callous, clausal, facials, fascial, faucals, faucial. | |
-4 letters: califs, callas, callus, casual, caulis, causal, coalas, coulis, cullis, facial, facias, facula, fascia, faucal, fiasco, fillos, fiscal, flails, follis, laical, lilacs, locals, loculi, oscula, scilla, social, sulcal. | |
-5 letters: afoul, alfas, alias, alifs, alula, aulic, calfs, calif, calla, calls, calos, cauls, coala, coals, coifs, coils, colas, cuifs, culls, facia, fails, falls, ficus, fillo, fills, filos, flail, flics, flocs, foals, focal, focus, foils, folia, fouls, fulls, fusil, laics, lilac, loafs, local, locus, louis, oculi, ollas, salal, salic, salol, scall, scull, sulci, sulfa, sulfo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-i-l-l-o-s-u" | |
+2 letters: fallaciously. | |
+4 letters: fallaciousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 6C 61 63 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-.. .-.. .- -.-. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l l a c i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 006C 0061 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40677878676975818785 |
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