Synonyms of the word spurious


SPURIOUSBASTARDLY - COUNTERFEIT - FALSE - ILLEGITIMATE - IMITATIVE - INAUTHENTIC - MISBEGOT - MISBEGOTTEN - SPECIOUS - UNAUTHENTIC

spurious

  • adj. false, not authentic, not genuine.
  • adj. (archaic) bastardly, illegitimate.

bastardly

  • adj. Having been born out of marriage.
  • adj. Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless.

counterfeit

  • adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
  • adj. Inauthentic.
  • adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
  • n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
  • n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  • n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
  • n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
  • v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
  • v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

false

  • adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
  • adj. Spurious, artificial.
  • adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • adj. (music) Out of tune.
  • adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

illegitimate

  • adj. Illegal; against the law.
  • adj. Born to unmarried parents.
  • adj. Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
  • adj. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
  • adj. (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously…
  • n. someone born illegitimately.

imitative

  • adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
  • adj. Modelled after another thing.

inauthentic

  • adj. Not authentic or genuine; spurious.

misbegot

  • adj. misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.

misbegotten

  • n. (obsolete, sometimes used abusively) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
  • n. (loosely, quasi-nominal collective, as “the misbegotten [are]”) That set of people born into infelicitous…
  • adj. (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
  • adj. (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
  • adj. expressing contempt, disdain, or hatred.

specious

  • adj. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
  • adj. Who or that uses fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments, deceitful.
  • adj. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
  • adj. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

unauthentic

  • adj. Not authentic.

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