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pettävä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fallacious adjective Based on faulty reasoning or a mistaken belief, and therefore wrong.
  • plausible adj Seeming reasonable or believable, even if not proven true.

Senses

pettävä is used for these senses in English:

  • fallacious Deceptive or misleading.
  • plausible Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.

fallacious — full definition

  1. adjective Based on faulty reasoning or a mistaken belief, and therefore wrong.
  2. adjective Likely to mislead someone, whether or not deliberately.

Related Finnish words