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[syn: sophistic, sophistical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster] -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. --
So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sophistic
adj 1: of or pertaining to sophists
2: plausible but misleading [syn: sophistic, sophistical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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