Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond the imagination |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, beyond belief, cockamamie, cockeyed, doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy, flaky*, flimsy*, for the birds, full of holes, harebrained, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, incredible, kooky, lamebrained, open to doubt, outlandish, past belief, phony, preposterous, questionable, reaching, scatterbrained, screwy, staggering, suspect, thick*, thin*, too much*, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak, won't hold water, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, credible, plausible, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsubstantiated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable, unproven |
| Synonyms: | arguable, controversial, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, fishy, hard to believe, iffy, indefinite, open to doubt, open to question, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, unsupported |
| Main Entry: | farfetched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unbelieveable |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, fishy, forced, illogical, implausible, improbable, incoherent, inconsequential, incredible, labored, preposterous, queer, recondite, strained, strange, suspicious, unconvincing, unlikely, unnatural, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | believable, likely, plausible, realistic |
| Main Entry: | Pecksniffian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pharisaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pharisaical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
* = 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
