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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | misleading |
| Synonyms: | apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious, casuistic, colorable, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely, nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable, presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical, sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong |
| Antonyms: | real, true, valid, credible |
| Main Entry: | unfit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appropriate or suited |
| Synonyms: | below par, can't make the grade, debilitated, decrepit, discordant, down, dragging, feeble, flimsy, ill-adapted, ill-equipped, ill-suited, improper, inadequate, inapplicable, inappropriate, incompatible, incongruous, incorrect, ineffective, inexpedient, infelicitous, inharmonious, laid low, mistaken, not fit, out of element, out of place, out of shape, poorly, rocky, unbecoming, uncongenial, uncool, unhealthy, unlikely, unmeet, unpromising, unsuitable, unsuited, useless, valueless |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, fit, suitable |
| Main Entry: | unseemly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper; in bad taste |
| Synonyms: | cheap, coarse, crude, discreditable, disreputable, in poor taste, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, inept, malapropos, malodorous, out of keeping, out of place, poor, raffish, rough, rowdy, rude, ruffian, tawdry, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undignified, ungodly, unrefined, unsuitable, untoward, vulgar, wrong |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, due, fitting, proper, seemly, suited |
| Main Entry: | unsound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well; flimsy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, crazed, dangerous, decrepit, defective, delicate, demented, deranged, diseased, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, fragile, frail, ill, illogical, in poor health, inaccurate, incongruous, incorrect, infirm, insane, insecure, insubstantial, invalid, lunatic, mad, not solid, rickety, shaky, specious, tottering, unbacked, unbalanced, unhealthy, unhinged, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, unwell, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | safe, sound, stable, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | untrue |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, cheating, 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, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong |
| Antonyms: | faithful, honest, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inappropriate, not suitable |
| Synonyms: | amiss, awkward, bad, disproportionate, funny, gauche, ill-advised, improper, inapt, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, infelicitous, malapropos, misplaced, not done, off-balance, rotten*, unacceptable, unbecoming, unconventional, undesirable, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unhappy, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, appropriate, correct, ok, suitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ungrammatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not using the correct rules of grammar |
| Synonyms: | ill-formed, imprecise, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, nonstandard, solecistic |
| Antonyms: | grammatical, well-formed |
| Main Entry: | counterfactual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counter to facts |
| Synonyms: | false, incorrect, made up, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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