Sophistical

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]:

  sophistical
       adj : plausible but misleading [syn: {sophistic}]

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

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophistical":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, apparently sound, arch, artful,
     astute, cagey, canny, casuistic, clever, colorable, crafty,
     cunning, cute, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep-laid, designing,
     diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, feline,
     foxy, guileful, hollow, illusive, ingenious, insidious, insincere,
     inventive, jesuitic, knowing, mealymouthed, overrefined,
     oversubtle, pawky, philosophicojuristic, philosophicoreligious,
     philosophistic, plausible, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming,
     serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth,
     snaky, sneaky, sophistic, specious, stealthy, strategic, subtile,
     subtle, supple, tactical, tongue in cheek, trickish, tricksy,
     tricky, uncandid, unfrank, unserious, vulpine, wary, wily