Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmic, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sly |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy*, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, secretive, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick*, smart*, smooth*, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sophistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fallacious |
| Synonyms: | beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, false, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony*, reasonless, sophistical, specious, spurious, unfounded, ungrounded, unreal, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound, untrue, way off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suppositious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, supposititious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supposititious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not true |
| Synonyms: | counterfactual, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, dissembling, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, forsworn, hollow, imprecise, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, out of line, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, unsound, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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