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Showing words for SPECIOUS using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Specious

specious

7 Letter Words for Specious

cesious, piceous, poussie, spicose, spicous

6 Letter Words for Specious

cepous, cessio, copies, copses, cossie, coupes, cuisse, cuspis, iscose, opuses, pisces, piscos, poesis, poises, posies, possie, pousse, scious, scopes, scoups, scouse, socies, socius, souces, specus, spices, spouse, upsies

5 Letter Words for Specious

copei, copes, copis, copse, copus, coses, cosie, cosse, coupe, coups, cusie, cusps, cusso, epics, euois, ipsus, issue, pecos, pesos, picus, pious, pisco, pisos, pocus, poise, poses, posse, pouce, puces, puses, scope, scops, scoup, scups, scuse, secos, secus, sepic, sices, sipes, sosie, souce, soups, souse, specs, speos, spice, spics, spies, spise, spues, supes

4 Letter Words for Specious

ceps, cess, cipo, coes, cope, cops, cose, coss, coue, coup, cpus, cues, cups, cusp, cuss, ecus, epic, epos, esop, euoi, ices, iocs, ipse, ipso, isos, oeci, opec, opes, opus, oses, osse, oups, pecs, peso, pess, pice, pico, pics, pies, pise, piso, piss, pius, pois, pose, poss, psec, psis, puce, puss, scop, scsi, scup, seco, secs, seis, seps, sice, sics, sipe, sips, sise, soce, socs, sope, sops, soup, sous, spec, spic, spie, spue, suci, sues, supe, sups, susi, uses

3 Letter Words for Specious

ceo, cep, cie, cis, cop, cos, cpi, cpo, cps, cpu, csi, csp, cue, cup, eco, ecu, eos, epi, esc, esp, ess, esu, ice, ios, iou, ipo, ips, ise, iso, oes, oie, ois, ope, ops, ose, osi, oui, oup, ous, pci, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, piu, poi, pos, psi, pus, sci, sec, sei, sep, sic, sie, sip, sis, soc, sop, sou, sps, sse, ssp, ssu, sue, sui, sup, sus, upo, ups, use

Definitions for Specious

[1] apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
[2] pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
[3] Obsolete . pleasing to the eye; fair.
[4] apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false
[5] deceptively attractive in appearance

Words related to Specious

incorrect, untrue, inaccurate, spurious, plausible, erroneous, deceptive, false, apparent, captious, credible, delusive, empty, fallacious, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, likely, nugatory

Words nearby Specious

specificity, specify, specimen, specimen plant, speciosity, specious, specious present, speck, speckle, speckle interferometry, speckle pattern

Origin of Specious

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin speciōsus fair, good-looking, beautiful, equivalent to speci(ēs ) (see species) + -ōsus -ous

Words that may be confused with Specious

specie, species, specious

Other words from Specious

spe·cious·ly , adverb
spe·cious·ness , noun
non·spe·cious , adjective
non·spe·cious·ly , adverb
non·spe·cious·ness , noun
un·spe·cious , adjective
un·spe·cious·ly , adverb
un·spe·cious·ness , noun

Word origin for Specious

C14 (originally: fair): from Latin speciōsus plausible, from speciēs outward appearance, from specere to look at

Synonyms for Specious

deceptive, erroneous, false, inaccurate, incorrect, plausible, spurious, untrue, apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious, casuistic, colorable, credible, delusive, empty, fallacious, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, likely, nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, presumable, presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical, sophisticated, unsound, vain, wrong