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English

Etymology

From {{term|spurius||illegitimate, bastardly|lang=la}} < {{term|spurcus||foul, base, low|lang=la}}

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈspjʊə.ri.əs/
  • IPA: /ˈspjʊr.i.əs/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-spurious.ogg


Adjective

  1. false, not authentic, not genuine
  2. bastardly, illegitimate


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Translations

et:spurious fr:spurious io:spurious id:spurious pt:spurious ta:spurious te:spurious vi:spurious

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spurious \Spu"ri*ous\ (sp[=u]"r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.]
1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source
pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate.
[1913 Webster]

2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious
firstborn." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zool.), the first,
or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced
in size, as in certain singing birds.

Spurious wing (Zool.), the bastard wing, or alula.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious;
fictitious; bastard.
[1913 Webster] -- Spu"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
Spu"ri*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet spurious
adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
Ethel Albert [syn: specious]
2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
[syn: bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten]
3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic,
unauthentic]
Moby Dictionary
affected , apocryphal , artificial , assumed , baseborn , bastard ,
bogus , brummagem , colorable , colored , contrived , counterfeit ,
counterfeited , deceitful , distorted , dressed up , dummy ,
embellished , embroidered , ersatz , factitious , fake , faked , false ,
falsified , fatherless , feigned , fictitious , fictive , forged ,
fraudulent , garbled , hypocritical , illegitimate , imitation ,
inauthentic , junky , make-believe , man-made , meretricious ,
misbegotten , miscited , miscreated , misquoted , misreported ,
misstated , mock , natural , perverted , phony , pinchbeck , pretend ,
pretended , pseudo , put-on , quasi , queer , self-styled , sham , shoddy ,
simulated , snide , so-called , soi-disant , substitute ,
supposititious , synthetic , tin , tinsel , titivated , twisted ,
unauthentic , unauthoritative , unfounded , ungenuine , unnatural ,
unreal , unreliable , warped


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