different between misbegotten vs spurious

English

Etymology

mis- +? begotten

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?sb????tn?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?sb????tn?/

Adjective

misbegotten (comparative more misbegotten, superlative most misbegotten)

1. (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
2. (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
   • 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy” in The A.V. Club:

     Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

3. (by extension) Bad; worthless.

Translations

Verb

misbegotten

1. past participle of misbeget

Noun

misbegotten (plural misbegotten)

1. (obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
2. (loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, ?ISBN, page 161:

     By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

Translations

See also

References

• OED (3rd ed., June 2002), “misbegotten, n. and adj.”

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?spj??.?i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?spj?.?i.?s/, /?sp?.?i.?s/, /?spj?.?i.?s/
• Rhymes: -???i?s

Adjective

spurious (comparative more spurious, superlative most spurious)

1. False, not authentic, not genuine.

   His argument was spurious and had no validity.

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
2. Extraneous; stray; not relevant or wanted.

   I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.

   Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.

3. (archaic) bastardly, illegitimate

Synonyms

• (false): counterfeit, fake, false, bogus
• See also Thesaurus:fake
• See also Thesaurus:illegitimate

Antonyms

• (false): genuine, representative

Derived terms

• spuriosity
• spuriously
• spuriousness

Translations

See also

• specious