'False' definitions:
Definition of 'false'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" [syn: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably, false]
adjective
Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: true]
adjective
Arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]
adjective
Erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
adjective
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"
adjective
Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [syn: delusive, false]
adjective
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, false, faux, imitation, simulated]
adjective
Designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
adjective
Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour]
adjective
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, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
adjective
(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [syn: false, untrue]
Definition of 'False'
From: GCIDE
- False \False\, a. [Compar. Falser; superl. Falsest.] [L. falsus, p. p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F. faux, and AS. fals fraud. See Fail, Fall.]
- 1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. [1913 Webster]
- I to myself was false, ere thou to me. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. [1913 Webster]
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. [1913 Webster]
- Whose false foundation waves have swept away. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mus.) Not in tune. [1913 Webster]
- False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction.
- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms.
- False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing.
- False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence.
- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus.
- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.
- False door or False window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry.
- False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction.
- False galena. See Blende.
- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.
- False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance.
- False key, a picklock.
- False leg. (Zool.) See Proleg.
- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane.
- False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, etc., for the purpose of deceiving.
- False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.
- False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another.
- False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another.
- False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it.
- False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp.
- False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution.
- False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man.
- False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. --Oxford Gloss.
- False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes.
- False scorpion (Zool.), any arachnid of the genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion.
- False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.
- False vampire (Zool.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and {ghost vampire}. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
- False window. (Arch.) See False door, above.
- False wing. (Zool.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under Bastard.
- False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'False'
From: GCIDE
- False \False\, adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely. "You play me false." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'False'
From: GCIDE
- False \False\, v. t. [L. falsare to falsify, fr. falsus: cf. F. fausser. See False, a.]
- 1. To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To betray; to falsify. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- In his falsed fancy. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] "And falsed oft his blows." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'false'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- 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,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- 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
Words containing 'False'
- Falsely,
- Falseness,
- False Pass,
- False arch,
- False attic,
- False bearing,
- False cadence,
- False conception,
- False croup,
- False door,
- False fire,
- False galena,
- False imprisonment,
- False jalap,
- False keel,
- False key,
- False leg,
- False loosestrife,
- False membrane,
- False miterwort,
- False myrrh,
- False nettle,
- False papers,
- False passage,
- False personation,
- False pretenses,
- False quarter,
- False rail,
- False relation,
- False return,
- False ribs,
- False roof,
- False sandalwood,
- False scorpion,
- False tack,
- False token,
- False topaz,
- False vampire,
- False window,
- False wing,
- False works,
- christs false,
- false alarm,
- false alumroot,
- false asphodel,
- false azalea,
- false beachdrops,
- false belief,
- false bittersweet,
- false bottom,
- false bracken,
- false buckthorn,
- false bugbane,
- false calyx,
- false chamomile,
- false deathcap,
- false dogwood,
- false dragonhead,
- false face,
- false flax,
- false foxglove,
- false front,
- false fruit,
- false garlic,
- false gavial,
- false glottis,
- false goatsbeard,
- false gromwell,
- false hair,
- false heather,
- false hellebore,
- false indigo,
- false labor,
- false leopardbane,
- false lupine,
- false mallow,
- false mildew,
- false mistletoe,
- false mitrewort,
- false modesty,
- false morel,
- false move,
- false name,
- false oat,
- false pimpernel,
- false pregnancy,
- false pretence,
- false pretense,
- false ragweed,
- false rue,
- false saffron,
- false sago,
- false sarsaparilla,
- false show,
- false smut,
- false step,
- false tamarisk,
- false teeth,
- false truffle,
- false verdict,
- false wintergreen,
- false witness,
- play false,
- False Pass, AK,
- False Solomon's seal,
- False-faced,
- False-heart,
- False-hearted,
- False-heartedness,
- bearing false witness,
- blue false indigo,
- california false morel,
- false baby's breath,
- false dragon head,
- false lily of the valley,
- false rue anemone,
- false vampire bat,
- false vocal cord,
- false vocal fold,
- great false leopardbane,
- oriental false leopardbane,
- red false mallow,
- scentless false camomile,
- sweet false chamomile,
- true-false,
- white false indigo,
- false saber-toothed tiger,
- saddled-shaped false morel