🇬🇧🇪🇸 fallacious - erróneo : English Lesson

Meaning of "fallacious" ("erróneo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

If an idea, explanation, or belief is fallacious, it sounds like it could be true, but it is actually wrong or based on a mistake, like a tricky answer that fools you at first.

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Using fallacious logic, Ben claimed pizza was a vegetable since it once saw a tomato ten miles away.

Nora used fallacious reasoning to prove her room was clean: she just shoved everything under the bed and declared it a “storage dimension.”

Liam had the fallacious belief that if he didn’t look at the dishes, they would wash themselves out of embarrassment.

The alien’s fallacious research report said humans recharge by screaming when they see spiders.

A fallacious myth once claimed people only use 10% of their brain—scientists proved that’s wrong.

At dusk Lena saw a dark coil and felt a fallacious fear, it looked like a snake. She kicked rocks; the fallacious thought grew as neighbors gasped and gave fallacious advice. A child picked up the coil and smiled: a wet hose. Her fallacious belief melted into laughter and the fallacious panic left.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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