Antonyms for fallacious

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fuh-ley-shuh s

Phonetic Transcription : fəˈleɪ ʃəs

Definition of fallacious

Origin : c.1500, from fallacy (Latin fallacia) + -ous. Related: Fallaciously; fallaciousness.

adj false, wrong

Example sentences :

Still, through this fallacious medium, a real enlargement of ideas is attained.
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

Only what must be avoided are fallacious inferences, my dear Lena—especially at this hour.
Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad

Political reconciliations are but outward and hollow, and fallacious.
Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman

There has never been a religion too gross, too fallacious, to fail of followers.
Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland

No compromise for him, no evasions, no fallacious, unsecured promises to pay.
Extract from : « Dream Days » by Kenneth Grahame

The consolations of philosophy are very amusing, but often fallacious.
Extract from : « The Vicar of Wakefield » by Oliver Goldsmith

Before two days, however, had passed these hopes were found to be fallacious.
Extract from : « The Heir of Kilfinnan » by W.H.G. Kingston

Perhaps so; but you will think it very frail and fallacious.
Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Of all deductions, those drawn from etymological comparisons are, perhaps, the most fallacious.
Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow

But the reasoning from such to the great mass of mankind, is most fallacious.
Extract from : « Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments » by Various

Synonyms for fallacious

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