Synonyms & related words for specious

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of specious — including spurious, meretricious, fallacious, sophistic, sophistical, disingenuous. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to specious

Explore words related to specious — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include speciosity, speciousness, speciously, sophistically, fallaciously, spuriousness, paralogist, meretriciousness. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for specious

Common synonyms for specious include spurious, meretricious, fallacious, sophistic, sophistical, disingenuous, delusive, insincere — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does specious come from?

The word specious breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root speci-, from Latin specere (“to look, behold”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.