Meaning and example
containing or based on a fallacy
Fallacious reasoning
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.427 places fallacious in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 92.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 92.7%
make less active or intense
- Known by
- 92.8%
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- Known by
- 92.8%
the use of brief expressions
- Known by
- 92.9%
make sense of; assign a meaning to
- Known by
- 92.6%
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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