英语词汇“spurious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	spurious
释义	spu·ri·ous \ˈspyu̇rēəs, -pyür- sometimes ÷ -pər.ē- or -pə.rē-\ adjective Etymology: Latin & Late Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius, n., bastard (often used as a praenomen) 1. : of illegitimate birth : bastard < her spurious firstborn — John Milton > < the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring — E.A.Freeman > 2. a. : outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities : false, counterfeit < the true ring by which … a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction — Thomas Hardy > < the spurious mechanical substitutes for knowledge and experience now provided through … the motion picture — Lewis Mumford > < prone to attach a spurious novelty to the things of the moment simply because they pretend to be new — J.A.R.Pimlott > < first of the … dictators to sweep to spurious glory on the upthrust of human arms — Milton Bracker > b. : simulative in symptoms or development without being pathologically or morphologically genuine < spurious labor pains > < spurious species > < spurious fruit > < the effusion of lymph which gradually degenerates into his spurious bony deposit — Robert Chawner > 3. a. : of falsified or erroneously attributed origin or authorship : forged, inauthentic < the spurious lines and passages which scholars used to reject as contradicting the genuine parts of the story — T.A.Jones > < the only known picture … albeit a spurious one had been printed some years earlier — James Monaghan > < the regalia became the symbols of sovereignty over all the tribes … though their spurious nature was obvious — A.M.Young > b. : of a deceitful or fictitious nature or quality : fraudulent < one of the worst features of the religious decadence … was the craftiness of such spurious types of men — Edwin Benson > < a completely spurious witness — M.S.Mayer > < the spurious explanations of the astrologers — G.A.L.Sarton > c. : faulty in reasoning or conclusion : illogical, specious < spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality and prediction — Ethel Albert > < no spurious argument, no appeal to sentiment … can deceive the American people — F.D.Roosevelt > < incomplete statistical evidence leads to spurious correlations > 4. : marked by spuriousness or falseness < additions which he inserted … to give them a spurious authenticity, into the original manuscript — R.D.Altick > 5. : of an excrescent or superfluous character : undesirably intrusive : extraneous < the power output of a transmitter must be … free from spurious radiations — Radio Amateur's Handbk. > < designed … to operate so that spurious emissions and responses are completely eliminated — W.P.Corderman > 6. : irrelevantly inapplicable : lacking correspondence to reality : vaguely ambiguous : pseudo < if the terms of our discourse are incompatible or confused … then our alleged beliefs are not false, but spurious — Susanne K. Langer > < if, when he utters it, he is not talking about anything, then his use is not a genuine one, but a spurious — Morris Weity > Synonyms: see counterfeit
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