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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sophistic has 2 senses
- sophistic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or pertaining to sophists; Array Derived form noun sophist1
- sophistic(s = adj.all) sophistical - plausible but misleading; Array Derived forms noun sophism1, noun sophist2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sophistic, 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."
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THESAURUS
sophistic
baseless, bogus, captious, casuistical, deceptive, fallacious, false, groundless, hypocritical, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, nonrational, reasonless, sham, sophistical, specious, unreasonable, unsound, untenable
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