false, phony, artificial; intended to deceive; (Archaic) of illegitimate birth, born out of wedlock
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Spurious Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
(a.)
Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutNot legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.
spurious
\spu"ri*ous\ (?), a. [l. spurius.]
1. not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
2. not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "her spurious firstborn."
spurious
primary, or
spurious
quill (zo?l.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.
spurious
wing (zo?l.), the bastard wing, or alula.
similar words(3)
spurious quill
spurious primary
spurious wing
Not genuine.
Adjective
1. plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
(synonym) specious
(similar) invalid
2. born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
(synonym) bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten
(similar) illegitimate
3. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
(synonym) inauthentic, unauthentic
(similar) counterfeit, imitative
Spurious Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Spurious can refer to:
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- Spurious correlation or spurious relationship
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