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What's The Definition Of False?
[adv] in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
[adj] (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [adj] arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [adj] 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" [adj] inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [adj] designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom" [adj] 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 aligator hide" [adj] inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [adj] deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses" [adj] not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [adj] erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" Synonyms | Synonyms for False: artificial | assumed | counterfeit | delusive | dishonest | dishonorable | faithlessly | fake | faux | fictitious | fictive | hollow | imitation | imitative | inconstant | incorrect | inharmonious | insincere | invalid | mendacious | mistaken | off-key | pretended | put on | sham | simulated | sour | specious | traitorously | treacherously | treasonably | trumped-up(a) | unharmonious | unreal | unrealistic | untrue | wrong Related Terms | Find terms related to False: 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 | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | dreamlike | dreamy | dubious | dummy | duplicitous | errant | erring | erroneous | ersatz | fabricated | factitious | faithless | fake | faked | fallacious | falsehearted | false-principled | 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 See Also | False In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance,
vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false
friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
I to myself was false, ere thou to me. --Milton.
3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or
likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive;
counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty;
false colors; false jewelry.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
--Shak.
5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as,
a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in
grammar.
Whose false foundation waves have swept away.
--Spenser.
6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which
are temporary or supplemental.
7. (Mus.) Not in tune.
{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 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}. (Zo["o]l.) 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,
ect., 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
\False\, adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely. ``You play me false.'' --Shak. \False\, v. t. [L. falsare to falsify, fr. falsus: cf. F. fausser. See {False}, a.] 1. To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To betray; to falsify. [Obs.] [He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. --Chaucer. 3. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.] In his falsed fancy. --Spenser. 4. To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] ``And falsed oft his blows.'' --Spenser. |
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