- Types Of Speech
- You can use spurious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Spurious
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters i, o, p, r, s, and u, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ri. Spurious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, sp, spu, spur, spuri, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, rious, ..
- Definition
- Intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
- Origin/Roots
- Late Latin
- School Grade
- Spurious is set as a sat word that starts with s, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Spurious in Pig Latin is said as "uriousspay or uriousspway".
- Unigram
- s | p | u | r | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- sp | pu | ur | ri | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- spu | pur | uri | rio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- spur | puri | urio | riou | ious
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- intended to deceive;
"a spurious work of art" - born out of wedlock;
"the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman - plausible but false;
"specious reasoning";
"the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
Synonym | Definition |
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Absonant | |
Absurd | inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman |
Addict | someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms |
Affected | acted upon influenced |
Albigensian | of or relating to Albigenses or Albigensianism |
Ambidextrous | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill "a double-dealing double agent" "a double-faced infernal traitor and |
Antinomian | a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism |
Apocryphal | of questionable authenticity |
Arian | |
Artificial | artificially formal "that artificial humility that her husband hated" "contrived coyness" "a stilted letter of acknowledgment" "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Spurious
Anagram | Definition |
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Spurious | intended to deceive "a spurious work of art" |
View English words with the unique letters used in spurious. Words With The Letters Ioprsu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Counterfeit | a copy that is represented as the original |
Imitative | not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" |
Spurious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters