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fallacious - Dictionary definition and meaning for fallacious

FALLACIOUS

(adj.) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
"fallacious hope"
(adj.) intended to deceive
"deceitful advertising", "fallacious testimony", "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice", "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
synonyms : deceitful , fraudulent
(adj.) containing or based on a fallacy
"fallacious reasoning", "an unsound argument"
synonyms : unsound

Mnemonics for fallacious

(Tag: ) fallacious.split it like fallac+ious...if you just concentrate on fallac..it look like FALSE,......so THINK that SOMETHING is based on a FALSE OR incorrect notion.....
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(Tag: ) basically this word is taken from... fallacia..means deceitful......so something which is deceitful is always based on misleading and incorrect notion.
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(Tag: global) the root fall means to deceive,if u remember this root it will in other words like infallible-not prone to error falsify-lie
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