- Types Of Speech
- You can use specious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Specious
- A 2 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters c, e, i, o, p, s, and u, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters ci. Specious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, sp, spe, spec, speci, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, cious, ..
- Definition
- Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Specious is set as a sat word that starts with s, ends with s, 2 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Specious in Pig Latin is said as "eciousspay or eciousspway".
- Unigram
- s | p | e | c | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- sp | pe | ec | ci | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- spe | pec | eci | cio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- spec | peci | ecio | ciou | ious
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- based on pretense;
deceptively pleasing;
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility";
"meretricious praise";
"a meretricious argument" - plausible but false;
"a specious claim" - plausible but false;
"specious reasoning";
"the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
Synonym | Definition |
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Academic | an educator who works at a college or university |
Aerial | a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer |
Aeriform | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality as impalpable or intangible as air "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle "aerial fancies" "an airy apparition" "physical rather than ethereal forms" |
Aery | any habitation at a high altitude |
Affected | acted upon influenced |
Aflare | streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her" "flying banners" "flags waving in the breeze" |
Airy | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality as impalpable or intangible as air "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle "aerial fancies" "an airy apparition" "physical rather than ethereal forms" |
Alleged | declared but not proved "alleged abuses of housing benefits"- Wall Street Journal |
Altogether | informal terms for nakedness "in the raw" "in the altogether" "in his birthday suit" |
Antic |
View all cognitive synonyms for Specious
Anagram | Definition |
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Specious | based on pretense deceptively pleasing "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility" "meretricious praise" "a meretricious argument" |
View English words with the unique letters used in specious. Words With The Letters Ceiopsu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Insincere | lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" |
Specious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters