Definition of 'false'
Adjective
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
Antonyms: true - arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
Synonyms: mistaken - erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
- deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
Synonyms: hollow - inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
Synonyms: delusive - 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"
Synonyms: fake faux imitation simulated - designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
- inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
Synonyms: off-key sour - 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"
Synonyms: assumed fictitious fictive pretended put on sham - (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
Synonyms: untrue
Adverb
- in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
Synonyms: faithlessly traitorously treacherously treasonably
