spurious C2 Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈspjʊɹ.i.əs/ UK /ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/ See IPA manual Freq #45703 Meanings 1 adj False or fake; not genuine or authentic. The painting turned out to be spurious, not a real Rembrandt. 2 adj Seeming reasonable but actually false or misleading. The study drew a spurious link between the two unrelated events. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · false or fake; not genuine... boguscounterfeitfakefalse 2 adj · seeming reasonable but... speciousfallacious ↔ Opposites genuinerepresentative Word family Derived forms nonspuriousspurionspuriosityspuriouslyspuriousnessunspurious Related forms specious Common collocations spurious correlation Adjective + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan. spurius la-lat View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # spurious **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈspjʊɹ.i.əs/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs/ **Frequency rank:** 45703 ## Meanings 1. False or fake; not genuine or authentic. 2. Seeming reasonable but actually false or misleading. ## Examples - The painting turned out to be spurious, not a real Rembrandt. - The study drew a spurious link between the two unrelated events. ## Antonyms - genuine - representative ## Derived Forms - nonspurious - spurion - spuriosity - spuriously - spuriousness - unspurious ## Related Forms - specious ## Roots and Affixes - Root: spurius ## Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan. ## AI Etymology Spurious is borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan. Important recorded forms include spurius (la-lat). Current senses include false or fake; not genuine or authentic and seeming reasonable but actually false or misleading. The wider family includes derived forms such as nonspurious, spurion, spuriosity, spuriously, and spuriousness; related words such as specious. ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown