false English

Meaning false meaning

What does false mean?

Definitions in simple English

false Adjective

— If something is false, it is not true or not real. It is false that 2 + 2 = 5. My grandfather takes out his false teeth at night.

false

— adjective not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality gave false testimony under oath false tales of bravery

— adjective (= mistaken) arising from error a false assumption a mistaken view of the situation

— adjective erroneous and usually accidental a false start a false alarm

— adjective deliberately deceptive false pretenses

— adjective (= untrue) (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful a false friend when lovers prove untrue

— adjective designed to deceive a suitcase with a false bottom

— adjective (= off-key, sour) inaccurate in pitch a false (or sour) note her singing was off key

— adjective (= assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham) 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

— adjective (= fake, faux, imitation, simulated) 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

— adjective (= delusive) inappropriate to reality or facts delusive faith in a wonder drug delusive expectations false hopes

— adverb (= treacherously) in a disloyal and faithless manner he behaved treacherously his wife played him false

Synonyms false synonyms

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false English » English

untrue

wrong

counterfeit

spurious

fake

sham

lying

bogus

artificial

deceptive

deceitful

incorrect

mock

imitation

erroneous

pretended

mendacious

fictitious

delusive

untruthful

pseudo

phoney

mistaken

insincere

unreal

forged

simulated

shoddy

phony

not true

lie

hypocritical

fraudulent

faux

faked

dishonest

unfaithful

treacherous

sour

quasi

feigned

faithlessly

duplicitous

dummy

wrongful

unsubstantial

unnatural

two-faced

treasonably

treacherously

Topics false topics

What do people use false to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Say

True

• What words indicate that something is not true?
  untrue false falsehood wrong error inaccurate incorrect mistake

Social behavior Law Trial

Witness, testify

• What words refer to testifying in a court?
  witness testify give evidence tell about recount provide information facts truth false witness perjure perjury report cross-examine hearsay
• What words refer to a witness lying?
  false testimony perjury

Social behavior Religion

Irreligion

• What words refer to a religious group, which the official religion considers to be false?
  false religion sect
• What words refer to a belief, which the official religion considers to be false?
  heresy heretical heretic false doctrine/teaching

Person Healthy Disease

Tooth decay

• What words refer to false teeth?
  false teeth dentures

Person Life Birth

Labor and birth pains

• What words refer to the feelings a woman has when she thinks she is beginning to go into labor?
  false labor early labor

Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly

• What words refer to when a person wants to speak but hesitates?
  hesitate pause false start

Grammar Name

Name of a person

• What words refer to a name you use for yourself that is not your real name?
  false name pseudonym pen name stage name alias a.k.a. (also known as) under the name of under an assumed name go by the name of

Examples false examples

How do I use false in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What he said turned out to be false.

Today, we had two false alarms.

The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.

The rumor turned out to be false.

That is not altogether false.

The vague rumor proved to be false.

The report is utterly false.

The report turned out to be false.

It seems that the news was false.

Whether the news is true or false makes little difference.

The news turned out false.

We considered the report as false.

It is false to say that snow is blue.

That is not all together false.

What he says is false.

The rumor turned out false.

The contestant made two false starts.

His story turned out to be false.

He invented a false rumor.

He gave the police a false name and address.

What she said turned out to be false.

The rumor of her death turned out false.

Her statement was false.

Her statement turned out to be false.

Movie subtitles

Noa Is it false information?

After several other false accusations, it became clear that Scarlett wasn't around.

False start.

More generally known as a false alarm.

And in return, I would ask that you stop your campaign of false propaganda.

One false move and I'm yours.

We know ya. Take off the false whiskers.

Crazy people, Professor, do not have the ability to distinguish between what is true and false.

You got it out of me by false pretenses and treachery.

Some director's gonna jail you for taking money under false pretenses.

If people don't stop getting into my house under false pretenses.

I was just about to take my first false step.

These men are in this country under false pretenses, and I'll do my duty.

It's up to the state to prove it false.

General Bugeaud once tried to send them false prophets.

We need a false floor in the truck. And we need to bribe the driver, the loaders, and the guards.

My last pupil, she gotta false set of teeth.

This is what comes, Chancellor, from feeding the people a false hope.

Justice is all about false collars.

But due to false claims. they mostly are.

Never be false. Never be cruel.

I can't believe he's false until I've seen him.

The hair is false and the gun is not the one that was used on Landis.

These are just Braxton Hicks contractions. More generally known as a false alarm.

You can put on a false beard and I will put on a veil so we will not be recognized.

And why did you wear this false beard that night?

Take off the false whiskers.

False representation, that's what it is.

The first false move, I'll leave.

However, all my different disguises. and false identities were used only. to throw the police off my track.

All serious ailments are preceded by a false feeling of physical fitness.

Hope sometimes can be a false prophet.

There are no false witnesses here.

News and current affairs

To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not legally probative), reputational damage to an attacker's soft power may contribute to deterrence.

In 2003, America went to war without its trans-Atlantic allies after manipulating false assertions.

As we have seen, the White House built its case for war on a highly selective dossier of evidence, and Bush made statements about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Africa that he and his staff knew to be highly doubtful, if not false.

But the West need not risk making the same mistake and accepting the same false choices.

These objections reflect a false opposition between the primacy of the individual and the paramountcy of society.

To most of us Web surfers, the Internet provides a false sense of complete freedom, power, and anonymity.

They would sustain false relative prices - the result of the inflationary credit bubble in the south that formed after the euro's adoption - that are preventing the euro's southern European countries from regaining competitiveness.

One error is to reject a true proposition; the other is to accept a false one.

Let's call them RWT (reject when true) and AWF (accept when false).

But RWT is costly, too, as we have seen, so the aggregate negative effect of the policy response to false positives (AWF) would have to be large to be convincing.

A sophisticated attacker can hide the point of origin behind the false flags of several remote servers.

They have the right to know why America, and the world, was misled by false claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Yet analogies with the Third Reich, although highly effective as a way to denounce people with whose views one disagrees, are usually false.

By lumping asylum-seekers together with economic migrants, the latter are discredited, as though they were trying to squeeze in under false pretenses.

Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.

Screening questionnaires maximize sensitivity, at a cost of false positives, because it is presumed that they are followed by expert clinical evaluation.

America's president is captive to the country's labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.

Washington has been seduced by the political economy of false prosperity.

I believe, instead, that it is a false truce in what will become a pitched battle for the soul of American politics.

If this is to be a turning point for Africa, rather than another false dawn, this summer must be the start of a prolonged effort to stimulate private-sector engagement.

A key lesson from the Great Inflation of the 1970's is that central banks can't afford a false sense of comfort from any dichotomy between headline and core inflation.

Their claims that progress would lead to accession were shown to be false, and an important incentive for officials was eliminated.

Even Chinese liberals admit that Western journalists blundered badly in Tibet, using cropped images and false captions as evidence of China's heavy-handed rule.

When one is looking for something relatively rare (whether cancer or terrorists), it is wise to remember that a positive result is often false.

In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.