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| 1. | [ adjective ] not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality | |
| Examples: | "gave false testimony under oath" "false tales of bravery" |
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| Related terms: | true untrue mendacious trumped-up specious incorrect dishonest insincere counterfeit truth | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] arising from error | |
| Synonyms: | mistaken | |
| Examples: | "a false assumption" "a mistaken view of the situation" |
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| Related terms: | incorrect | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] deliberately deceptive | |
| Synonyms: | hollow | |
| Examples: | "hollow (or false) promises" "false pretenses" |
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| Related terms: | insincere | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] designed to deceive | |
| Examples: | "a suitcase with a false bottom" |
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| Related terms: | dishonest | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] inaccurate in pitch | |
| Synonyms: | sour off-key | |
| Examples: | "a false (or sour) note" "her singing was off key" |
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| Related terms: | inharmonious | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | |
| Synonyms: | simulated imitation faux fake | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | artificial | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] inappropriate to reality or facts | |
| Synonyms: | delusive | |
| Examples: | "delusive faith in a wonder drug" "delusive expectations" "false hopes" |
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| Related terms: | unrealistic | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] adopted in order to deceive | |
| Synonyms: | pretended fictive fictitious put_on sham assumed | |
| Examples: | "an assumed name" "an assumed cheerfulness" "a fictitious address" "fictive sympathy" "a pretended interest" "a put-on childish voice" "sham modesty" |
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| Related terms: | counterfeit | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] erroneous and usually accidental | |
| Examples: | "a false start" "a false alarm" |
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| Related terms: | invalid | |
| 10. | [ adverb ] in a disloyal and faithless manner | |
| Synonyms: | traitorously treacherously treasonably faithlessly | |
| Examples: | "he behaved treacherously" "his wife played him false" |
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| Related terms: | faithless faithless punic traitorous traitorous punic | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] inaccurate in pitch | |
| Synonyms: | sour off-key | |
| Examples: | "a false (or sour) note" "her singing was off key" |
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| Related terms: | inharmonious | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful | |
| Synonyms: | untrue | |
| Examples: | "a false friend "when lovers prove untrue" |
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| Related terms: | inconstant | |
| Similar spelling: |
falls Fails Faulks falsie Fallis Faulk Falke Fales fallacy |
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