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spurious

adj
/ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/UK/ˈspjʊɹ.i.əs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.

  1. borrowed from spurius — “illegitimate, bastardly”

Definitions

  1. False, not authentic, not genuine.

    • His argument was spurious and had no validity.

  2. Extraneous, stray

    Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.

    • I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
    • Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.

  3. Bastardly, illegitimate.

    • […] who alſo in her prime of love, Spouſal embraces, vitiated with Gold, Though offer’d only, by the ſent conceiv’d Her ſpurious firſt-born; Treaſon againſt me?

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Derived

nonspurious, spurion, spuriosity, spurious diphthong, spurious infection, spurious language, spuriously, spuriousness, unspurious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spurious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01spurious02authentic03claimed04claim05right06direction07theoretical08empirical09testable10false

A definitional loop anchored at spurious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at spurious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA