Definitions for specious

Overview of adj specious

The adj specious has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. specious, spurious

(plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences")

2. gilded, meretricious, specious

(based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")