paralogistic
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paralogistic — See paralogist. * * * … Universalium
paralogistic — pa·ral·o·gis·tic … English syllables
paralogistic — ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|jistik adjective : utilizing or having the nature of a paralogism : fallacious … Useful english dictionary
paralogism — paralogist, n. paralogistic, adj. /peuh ral euh jiz euhm/, n. Logic. 1. argument violating principles of valid reasoning. 2. a conclusion reached through such argument. [1555 65; < LL paralogismus < Gk paralogismós. See PARA 1, LOGO , ISM] * * * … Universalium
fallacious — I adjective abounding in error, beguiling, contrary to fact, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devoid of truth, distorted, erroneous, fallax, false, faultful, faulty, faulty in logic, fraudulent, groundless, guileful, illusive … Law dictionary
groundless — I adjective baseless, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, ill founded, inaccurate, paralogistic, unfounded, unjustifiable, unreal, unreasonable, unsound, unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, untrue, unwarranted,… … Law dictionary
illogical — I adjective absurdus, contradictory, contrary to reason, contrary to the rules of logic, fallacious, faulty, groundless, inconsistent, indefensible, irrational, logically unsound, mistaken, nonscientific, paralogistic, self contradictory,… … Law dictionary
illogical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unreasoned, fallacious, specious, implausible, absurd. See error, absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irrational, unreasonable, absurd, specious, fallacious, sophistical, inconsequent,… … English dictionary for students
fallacious — a. 1. Deceptive, delusive, deceiving, illusive, illusory, misleading, disappointing, false. 2. Sophistical, worthless, paralogistic … New dictionary of synonyms
idle — adj 1. inactive, unoccupied, at leisure, doing nothing; unemployed, workless, out of work, not working, jobless, out of a job, Inf. collecting, on the dole, on welfare; vagrant, Inf. on the bum. 2. unfilled, vacuous, vacant, empty, not in use,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
