eristic

adjective

variants also eristical
Definition of eristicnext
as in sophistical

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  1. irrational
  2. specious
  3. illogical
  4. unreasonable
  5. fallacious
Adjective
  • The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Conversely, what then could be more wasteful, more undesirable, and more irrational than negating a large share of these conversion gains by wasting them?
    Vaclav Smil, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • These days, those sorts of proclamations tend to feel more specious than ever.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Media lawyers now fear that Trump will ramp up the deployment of subpoenas, specious lawsuits, court orders, and search warrants to seize reporters’ notes, devices, and source materials.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of specious
Adjective
  • Honolulu’s case is illogical on its face given that its allegations of damages stem from interstate greenhouse gas emissions.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • What’s hard about this, of course, is that fear is often illogical, and our wants can be, too.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of illogical
Adjective
  • In business, Dolan was formidable but never unreasonable.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The excellence and the longevity are unreasonable to match or even approach.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of unreasonable
Adjective
  • That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.
    Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
Definition of fallacious
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