Found 2 items, similar to fallacious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fallacious fallacious adj 1: containing or based on a fallacy; “fallacious reasoning”; “an unsound argument” [syn: unsound] 2: intended to deceive; “deceitful advertising”; “fallacious testimony”; “smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice” - S.T.Coleridge; “a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes” [syn: deceitful, fraudulent] 3: based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; “fallacious hope”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fallacious Fallacious \Fal*la"cious\, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F. fallacieux. See Fallacy.] Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]