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spurious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of spurious

1 being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud

  • a spurious Picasso painting that wouldnʼt have fooled an art expert for a second
Synonyms of spurious

bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, unauthentic
Words Related to spurious

artificial, factitious, imitation, man-made, mimic, mock, simulated, substitute, synthetic

dummy, nonfunctioning, ornamental

cultured, fabricated, manufactured

deceptive, delusive, misleading
Near Antonyms of spurious

natural

actual, true, valid
Antonyms of spurious

authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, unfaked

2 lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

  • claimed that the governorʼs election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks
Synonyms of spurious

affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, strained, unnatural
Words Related to spurious

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
Near Antonyms of spurious

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending

easy, effortless, smooth

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
Antonyms of spurious

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced

3 born to a father and mother who are not married

  • the spurious son of Charles II, the Duke of Monmouth would later mount a rebellion in a disastrous attempt to claim the throne
Synonyms of spurious

baseborn, bastard, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural, supposititious, unfathered
Words Related to spurious

fatherless, motherless

nameless

adopted, orphaned
Antonyms of spurious

legitimate

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