fallacious
pronunciation
How to pronounce fallacious in British English:
UK [fəˈleɪʃəs]
How to pronounce fallacious in American English:
US [fəˈleʃəs]
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- Adjective:
- containing or based on a fallacy
- intended to deceive
- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
Word Origin
- fallacious (adj.)
- c. 1500, from fallacy (Latin fallacia) + -ous. Related: Fallaciously; fallaciousness.
Example
- 1. This viewpoint , however , is a misleading and fallacious one .
- 2. Over the past two years , many of wall street 's big ideas have been exposed as woefully ill-conceived at best , utterly fallacious at worst .
- 3. Arguments against requiring banks to have much-reduced leverage are either fallacious irrelevant or weak , as are dire predictions for national competitiveness , lending and growth .
- 4. But this argument is fallacious .
- 5. A close scrutiny of these arguments would reveal how fallacious thev are .