'Spurious' definitions:
Definition of 'spurious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious]
adjective
Born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious]
adjective
Intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious]
Definition of 'Spurious'
From: GCIDE
- Spurious \Spu"ri*ous\ (sp[=u]"r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.]
- 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious firstborn." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zool.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.
- Spurious wing (Zool.), the bastard wing, or alula. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious; fictitious; bastard. [1913 Webster] -- {Spu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Spu"ri*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spurious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- fraudulent,
- garbled,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- inauthentic,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meretricious,
- misbegotten,
- miscited,
- miscreated,
- misquoted,
- misreported,
- misstated,
- mock,
- natural,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- warped