The meaning of Fallacious

adjective

Giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.

Usage examples:

He put the question with deceptive casualness

adjective

Making you believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

It's deceptive - from the outside the building looks small, but inside it's very big.

adjective

Giving a false or misleading impression.

Usage examples:

A delusive perception of opportunity for all

adjective

False

Usage examples:

I harboured the delusive hope that he would return my love.

adjective

Another term for delusive.

adjective

Wrong; incorrect.

Usage examples:

Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions

adjective

Based on false information and therefore wrong; false

Usage examples:

An erroneous assumption

adjective

Not according with truth or fact; incorrect.

Usage examples:

He was feeding false information to his customers

adjective

(of things) not real, but made to look real, or (of information) not true but made to seem true in order to deceive

Usage examples:

Haban used false identification to enter france., the company presented clients with documents cont…

adjective

Not true or correct

Usage examples:

It is an offense to give false information on your application form., the wanted man is known to be…

adjective

Not working or made correctly; having defects.

Usage examples:

A faulty brake

adjective

Not working correctly, or not correct

Usage examples:

Faulty brakes, his arguments were based on faulty reasoning.

adjective

Not working correctly

Usage examples:

The company recalled over 500,000 cars last year because of a faulty connection in their new model.…

adjective

Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated.

Usage examples:

Reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the minister

adjective

Invented and not true or existing; false

Usage examples:

He registered at the hotel under a fictitious name.

adjective

Not real

Usage examples:

Executives invented fictitious sales to justify amounts transferred offshore., many of the internet…

adjective

Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.

Usage examples:

A fatally flawed strategy

verb

Mar, weaken, or invalidate (something).

Usage examples:

The computer game was flawed by poor programming

adjective

Having or containing one or more faults, mistakes, or weaknesses

Usage examples:

Don't rush to another flawed conclusion., badly/deeply/seriously flawed these results were the outc…

adjective

Based on illusion; not real.

Usage examples:

She knew the safety of her room was illusory

adjective

Not real and based on illusion

Usage examples:

Their hopes of a peaceful solution turned out to be illusory.

adjective

Lacking exactness and accuracy of expression or detail.

Usage examples:

The witness could give only vague and imprecise descriptions

adjective

Not accurate or exact

Usage examples:

As all the data have not yet been collected, the figures are still imprecise.

adjective

Not accurate.

Usage examples:

False or inaccurate descriptions of goods

adjective

Not correct, or not exact

Usage examples:

Your information is inaccurate – i was born in 1956, not 1965., inaccurate measurements, [ c ] rose…

adjective

Not in accordance with fact; wrong.

Usage examples:

The doctor gave you incorrect advice

adjective

Exhibiting (or failing to exhibit) political correctness.

Usage examples:

It is not politically correct to laugh at speech impediments

adjective

Not correct; not accurate

Usage examples:

He charged that the news story was factually incorrect and demanded an apology., for each question …

adjective

Not quite accurate or correct.

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An inexact description

adjective

Not known in detail or not completely accurate

Usage examples:

Economics is an inexact science.

adjective

Having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning.

Usage examples:

Their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country

verb

Mislead.

Usage examples:

A long survey that can only baffle and misguide the general reader

adjective

Unreasonable or unsuitable because of being based on a bad judgment of a situation or on information or beliefs that are wrong

Usage examples:

"the red shoes" was a misguided attempt to turn a ballet film into a musical.

verb

Give (someone) false or inaccurate information.

Usage examples:

I'm afraid you have been misinformed

verb

Past simple and past participle of misinform

Usage examples:

I was told she would be at the meeting, but clearly i was misinformed.

verb

To tell someone information that is not correct

Usage examples:

I was told she would be at the meeting, but clearly i was misinformed.

adjective

Giving the wrong idea or impression.

Usage examples:

Your article contains a number of misleading statements

verb

Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression.

Usage examples:

Fans believed they were misled about the reasons for the cancellation

adjective

Causing someone to believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

Misleading information, a misleading story

adjective

Wrong in one's opinion or judgement.

Usage examples:

She wondered whether she'd been mistaken about his intentions

verb

Be wrong about.

Usage examples:

Because i was inexperienced i mistook the nature of our relationship

adjective

Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

Usage examples:

A specious argument

adjective

Seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false

Usage examples:

A specious distinction, his whole argument is specious.

adjective

Not in accordance with fact or reality; false or incorrect.

Usage examples:

These suggestions are totally untrue

adjective

Not true; false

Usage examples:

Her remarks were irresponsible and untrue.

adjective

Not correct or true; incorrect.

Usage examples:

That is the wrong answer

adverb

In an unsuitable or undesirable manner or direction.

Usage examples:

What am i doing wrong?

noun

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act.

Usage examples:

I have done you a great wrong