specious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

   “This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.”

2. sıfat Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.

   “With early virtues plant your breaſt, / The ſpecious arts of vice deteſt.”

3. sıfat Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.

   “And could any thing be more ſpecious, or more equal, than that fair diſtribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?”

4. sıfat Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
5. sıfat Alternative form of speciose (“rich in species”).

   “Coelorinchus is the most specious genus of macrourids with 122 species at the time of writing and more yet to be described.”