Meaning & use

spurious

adjective·Advanced

Not genuine, authentic, or logically sound; based on false or mistaken reasoning.

See it in a sentence

The lawyer dismissed the claim as spurious, since it lacked any real evidence.

Researchers found a spurious correlation between ice cream sales and drowning rates.

A note on using this word

In statistics, a 'spurious correlation' looks meaningful but is actually caused by an unrelated third factor.

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Words with an opposite meaning

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