Sophistic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sophistic \So*phis"tic\, Sophistical \So*phis"tic*al\, a. [L.
     sophisticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sophistique.]
     Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry;
     fallaciously subtile; not sound.
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           His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
                                                    --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster] -- {So*phis"tic*al*ly}, adv. --
     {So*phis"tic*al*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sophistic
       adj 1: of or pertaining to sophists
       2: plausible but misleading [syn: {sophistical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophistic":
     baseless, bogus, captious, casuistical, deceptive, fallacious,
     false, groundless, hypocritical, invalid, irrational, mad,
     misleading, nonrational, reasonless, sham, sophistical, specious,
     unreasonable, unsound, untenable