Dictionary Definition
false adj
1 not in accordance with the fact or reality or
actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of
bravery" [ant: true]
2 arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a
mistaken view of the situation" [syn: mistaken]
3 erroneous and usually accidental; "a false
start"; "a false alarm"
4 deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false)
promises"; "false pretenses" [syn: hollow]
5 inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive
faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
[syn: delusive]
6 not genuine or real; being an imitation of the
genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur";
"faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm
leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake, faux, imitation, simulated]
7 designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false
bottom"
9 adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name";
"an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham
modesty" [syn: assumed,
fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
10 (used especially of persons) not dependable in
devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers
prove untrue" [syn: untrue] adv : in a disloyal and
faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him
false" [syn: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Though it exists in late fals was not common usage until the 12th century. It probably entered or reentered the language through or fals, faus. Prior to that it is clear to have come from , falsus, meaning "falsehood", from the earlier verb fallere, "to deceive".Pronunciation
Adjective
Synonyms
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Related terms
Translations
untrue, not factual, wrong
- Czech: nepravdivý
- Danish: falsk
- Dutch: onwaar, vals, fout, onjuist
- Finnish: valheellinen, epätosi, väärä, vale- (prefix)
- French: faux, incorrect
- German: falsch, unwahr
- Greek: ψευδής
- Hebrew: ,
- Indonesian: salah
- Interlingua: false
- Italian: falso, errato
- Latin: falsus
- Polish: fałszywy, nieprawdziwy
- Portuguese: falso, errado
- Romanian: fals, neadevăr
- Spanish: falso
- Swedish: falsk, osann
- Turkish: yanlış, yalan
- Welsh: anwir, anghywir
spurious, artificial
- Danish: kunstig
- Dutch: vals, onecht
- Finnish: teko- (prefix), keino- (prefix)
- French: faux, artificiel
- German: falsch
- Greek: ψευδής, πλαστός, κίβδηλος, νόθος
- Hebrew: , (=prosthetic), (=prosthetic)
- Indonesian: buatan
- Interlingua: false
- Italian: posticcio, finto
- Polish: sztuczny
- Portuguese: falso, artificial
- Romanian: fals, artificial, contrafăcut
- Spanish: postiza
- Swedish: konstgjord
- Turkish: yapay, sahte
state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative
result
- Dutch: onwaar, vals
- Finnish: epätosi
- French: faux
- Hebrew:
- Italian: falso
- Romanian: fals
- Swedish: falskt
- Turkish: yanlış
- ttbc Catalan: fals#Catalan
- ttbc Ido: falsa
- ttbc Indonesian: palsu
- ttbc Irish: bréagach
- ttbc Japanese: 否, 偽の (にせの, nise-no)
- ttbc Latin: falsus
- ttbc Spanish: falso, falaz
Italian
Adjective
false pExtensive Definition
False may also refer to:
See also
- Contradiction
- Falsity
- Lie
- Falsework, a temporary support
false in Italian: Falso
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Machiavellian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, airy, all abroad, all off, all
wrong, ambidextrous, amiss, apostate, apparent, apparitional, artful, artificial, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, backsliding, baseborn, bastard, beguiling, beside the mark,
bogus, brummagem, calculating, canting, catchy, chimeric, chiseling, collusive, concocted, contrary to fact,
corrupt, counterfeit, counterfeited, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defective, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, derelict, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious, disaffected, dishonest, disloyal, distorted, double, double-dealing,
double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, dummy, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faithless, fake, faked, fallacious, false-principled,
falsehearted,
fantastic, faultful, faulty, feigned, fickle, fictitious, finagling, fishy, flawed, forged, fraudulent, furtive, goody, goody-goody, guileful, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, holier-than-thou,
hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imitation, imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, indirect, inexact, insidious, insincere, invalid, lying, made-up, manufactured, mealymouthed, mendacious, meretricious, misbegotten, miscreated, misleading, mistaken, mock, not right, not true, not true
to, of bad faith, off, off
the track, ostensible, out, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, pharisaic, phony, pietistic, pinchbeck, pious, pseudo, questionable, recreant, renegade, sanctified, sanctimonious, scheming, seeming, self-contradictory,
self-deceptive, self-deluding, self-righteous, sham, sharp, shifty, simulated, slippery, sneaky, snide, sniveling, specious, spectral, spurious, straying, substitute, supposititious, surreptitious, synthetic, traitorous, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trothless, truthless, two-faced, unactual, unctuous, underhand, underhanded, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded, unloyal, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsound, unsteadfast, unsubstantial, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, visionary, wide, wily, wrong