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.
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2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious
firstborn." --Milton.
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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.
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Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious;
fictitious; bastard.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
spurious
adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
Ethel Albert [syn: specious]
2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
[syn: bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten]
3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic,
unauthentic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "spurious":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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