different between outward vs specious

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English outward, from Old English ?tweard, equivalent to out +? -ward

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: out'w?rd, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: out'w?d, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• Hyphenation: out?ward

Adjective

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. outer; located towards the outside
2. visible, noticeable

   By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.

   • The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.

   an outward war

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hayward to this entry?)

Translations

Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10^thc.]

   We are outward bound.
2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14^th-17^thc.]

Synonyms

• outwards

Derived terms

• outwardness

Translations

Etymology 2

From out- +? ward.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/

Verb

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)

1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

Etymology 3

Noun

outward (plural outwards)

1. A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.

Anagrams

• draw out, outdraw

Middle English

Alternative forms

• owtward, outwarde, owtwarde, ow?twarde, outeward, utward, utteward

Etymology

From Old English ?tweard; equivalent to out +? -ward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?tward/, /?u?twa?rd/

Adverb

outward

1. outside (in the exterior)
2. To an external location; outwards
3. At the exterior; at a location away from one's home or homeland
4. From an external perspective; seemingly.
5. secularly; in a practical manner.

Derived terms

• outwardes

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Adjective

outward

1. outside, outer, on the surface
2. outward, toward the exterior
3. Oriented towards the outside.
4. Due to outside factors.
5. In somewhere outside a given place or thing (especially of a country).
6. Non-religious; lay

Derived terms

• outwardly

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Noun

outward

1. The outside; the exterior

See also

• homward
• inward

English

Etymology

From Latin speci?sus (“good-looking”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?spi???s/
• Rhymes: -i???s

Adjective

specious (comparative more specious, superlative most specious)

1. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

   Synonyms: fallacious, insincere

   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:

     now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
2. Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
   • 1829, William Phelan, Mortimer O'Sullivan, Ireland: A digest taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland, 1824—25, in The Christian Review and Clerical Magazine, Volume III, page 472,

     But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation.

3. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.

   Synonyms: meretricious, pretextual

   • 1760, William Warburton, The Lord Bishop of Gloucester's Sermon Preached Before the Right Honourable the House of Lords, January 30, 1760, page 19,

     And could any thing be more ?pecious, or more equal, than that fair di?tribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?

   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 59

     This argument, though specious, will not, upon examination, be found solid.

4. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

Derived terms

• specious present
• specious tiger (Asota speciosa, a species of moth)

Related terms

• speciosity
• speciously
• speciousness

Translations

See also

• spurious

Anagrams

• cosies up