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False
FALSE, a. [L. falsus, from fallo, to deceive. See Fall and Fail.]
1. Not true; not conformable to fact; expressing what is contrary to that which exists, is done, said or thought. A false report communicates what is not done or said. A false accusation imputes to a person what he has not done or said. A false witness testifies what is not true. A false opinion is not according to truth or fact. The word is applicable to any subject, physical or moral.
2. Not well founded; as a false claim.
3. Not true; not according to the lawful standard; as a false weight or measure.
4. Substituted for another; succedaneous; supposititious; as a false bottom.
5. Counterfeit; forged; not genuine; as false coin; a false bill or note.
6. Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations; as a false foundation
False and slippery ground.
7. Not agreeable to rule or propriety; as false construction in language.
8. Not honest or just; not fair; as false play.
9. Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful. The king's subjects may prove false to him. So we say, a false heart.
10. Unfaithful; inconstant; as a false friend; a false lover; false to promises and vows.
The husband and wife proved false to each other.
11. Deceitful; treacherous; betraying secrets.
12. Counterfeit; not genuine or real; as a false diamond.
13. Hypocritical; feigned; made or assumed for the purpose of deception; as false tears; false modesty. The man appears in false colors. The advocate gave the subject a false coloring.
False fire, a blue flame, made by the burning of certain combustibles, in a wooden tube; used as a signal during the night.
False imprisonment, 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, adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
FALSE, v.t.
1. To violate by failure of veracity; to deceive. Obs.
2. To defeat; to balk; to evade. Obs.
false appears in definitions for these words:
Affectation Affected Affecting Ague-cake Amorpha Anomaly Apocryphal Apostate Apprehension Arrogate Asperse Assign Attaint Authentic Barefaced Bastard Bear Bedswerver Belie Belied Beware Blackish Blend Bribery Broad Brucia Bubble Burly Calumniate Calumniated Calumniation Calumniator Calumny Cavil Chaff Chasm Checker Cloke Cog Coggery Coin Color Confidence Confutable Confutation Confute Confuted Confuting Conspiracy Conspirator Conspire Contradiction Contraries Contrariety Convict Council Counter Counterfeit Counterfeiter Counterfeitly Countertaste Creation Criterion Critically Crocodile Cuckold Cunning Deal Deceit Deceive Deceptive Declare Defamation Defamatory Defame Defaming Delude Deluder Deluding Delusion Determinately Detraction Devil Disabuse Discern Discernment Discriminate Discuss Discussion Disguise Disguisement Disguising Disloyal Disproof Disprove Disproved Disproving Dispute Dissemble Dissembled Dissembler Dissembling Dissemblingly Dissimulation Distaff-thistle Distinguish Divest Divine Divinity Doctrine Double-hearted Downright Dress Enemy Epoch Eradicate Errant Erroneous Erroneously Erroneousness Evidence Exprobration Extract Fable Fabling Fabricate Fabricated Fabricating Fabrication Face Faithless Fallacious Fallacy Falsary False False-heart Falsehood Falsely Falseness Falsification Falsifier Falsify Falsifying Falsity Fancy Farce Fare Feign Feigning Feigningly Feint Fib Fictitious Fictitiously Flam Flatter Flattered Flattering Flattery Forge Forgery Forswear Forswearer Forswearing Foulness Fraud Friendship Fucate Fucus Gally Gentile Gentilism Genuine Genuineness Gild Give Gloze Go God Good Groundless Haak Hang Heteroptics Highness Hollow Huff Hypocrisy Hypocrite Hypocritic Hypocritically Idolatrous Illegality Illusion Illusive Illusively Illusiveness Illusory Imagery Imp Impose Impostor Imposture Imprisonment Incendiary Incompatibility Incompatible Inconclusively Inconclusiveness Inconsistent Infirm Ingenuous Insincere Instance Interweave Invent Involution Jactitation Judge Juggle Keel Knave Know Lay Leasing Legitimate Legitimately Liableness Libel Lie Liege Liver Loin Lumbar Lye Lying Main-keel Mainswear Manner Mendacious Mendacity Meretricious Misascribe Misbelief Misbeliever Mischaracterize Miscite Miscomputation Misconceit Misconception Miscreance Miscreant Misdevotion Misinformation Misjudge Mispersuasion Misprofess Misrate Misrelate Misreport Misrepresent Misrepresentation Misrepresented Misrepresenter Misrepresenting Misseem Missemblance Misspelled Misstating Mistakingly Misvouch Miszealous Mock Mockery Momentous Moon Morling Mountebank Name Necessarily Notion Oath Opinion Opossum Pagan Paganism Paralogism Paralogize Paralogy Pass Passable Perfidious Periwig Perjure Perjured Perjurer Perjuring Perjury Personage Petrific Philosophism Phlogiston Play Poison Pretend Pretended Pretendedly Pretending Pretense Pretension Pretext Prevaricate Prevarication Priscillianist Problem Prophet Prove Provost Pseudo Pseudo-apostle Pseudo-china Pseudo-galena Pseudograph Pseudology Quarter Reason Reasoning Recreant Rectify Refutable Refutation Refute Refuted Refuting Religion Repay Reprobation Reversal Sacrifice Sagacity Scandal Seducement Seducer Serious Serve Sham Sheer Shortness Signal Simulation Sincerity Slander Slandered Slanderous Slanderously Sooterkin Sophism Sophistry Spurious Spuriously Spuriousness Stab Stay Strumpet Suborn Subornation Suborned Suborner Suborning Subreptitious Superstition Suppose Supposition Surmise Sway Swear Swearing Swift Tell Temper Temperament Tete Theoretically Thief Tinsel Tissue Ton Tradition Trail Tritone True Trumpery Truth Tumid Tumor Twit Unaffectedly Understanding Undisguised Undissembling Unobjectionable Untrue Untruly Untruth Utter Vain Vaunt-mure Vice Warrantable Whip Winnow Wise Worship
Affectation Affected Affecting Ague-cake Amorpha Anomaly Apocryphal Apostate Apprehension Arrogate Asperse Assign Attaint Authentic Barefaced Bastard Bear Bedswerver Belie Belied Beware Blackish Blend Bribery Broad Brucia Bubble Burly Calumniate Calumniated Calumniation Calumniator Calumny Cavil Chaff Chasm Checker Cloke Cog Coggery Coin Color Confidence Confutable Confutation Confute Confuted Confuting Conspiracy Conspirator Conspire Contradiction Contraries Contrariety Convict Council Counter Counterfeit Counterfeiter Counterfeitly Countertaste Creation Criterion Critically Crocodile Cuckold Cunning Deal Deceit Deceive Deceptive Declare Defamation Defamatory Defame Defaming Delude Deluder Deluding Delusion Determinately Detraction Devil Disabuse Discern Discernment Discriminate Discuss Discussion Disguise Disguisement Disguising Disloyal Disproof Disprove Disproved Disproving Dispute Dissemble Dissembled Dissembler Dissembling Dissemblingly Dissimulation Distaff-thistle Distinguish Divest Divine Divinity Doctrine Double-hearted Downright Dress Enemy Epoch Eradicate Errant Erroneous Erroneously Erroneousness Evidence Exprobration Extract Fable Fabling Fabricate Fabricated Fabricating Fabrication Face Faithless Fallacious Fallacy Falsary False False-heart Falsehood Falsely Falseness Falsification Falsifier Falsify Falsifying Falsity Fancy Farce Fare Feign Feigning Feigningly Feint Fib Fictitious Fictitiously Flam Flatter Flattered Flattering Flattery Forge Forgery Forswear Forswearer Forswearing Foulness Fraud Friendship Fucate Fucus Gally Gentile Gentilism Genuine Genuineness Gild Give Gloze Go God Good Groundless Haak Hang Heteroptics Highness Hollow Huff Hypocrisy Hypocrite Hypocritic Hypocritically Idolatrous Illegality Illusion Illusive Illusively Illusiveness Illusory Imagery Imp Impose Impostor Imposture Imprisonment Incendiary Incompatibility Incompatible Inconclusively Inconclusiveness Inconsistent Infirm Ingenuous Insincere Instance Interweave Invent Involution Jactitation Judge Juggle Keel Knave Know Lay Leasing Legitimate Legitimately Liableness Libel Lie Liege Liver Loin Lumbar Lye Lying Main-keel Mainswear Manner Mendacious Mendacity Meretricious Misascribe Misbelief Misbeliever Mischaracterize Miscite Miscomputation Misconceit Misconception Miscreance Miscreant Misdevotion Misinformation Misjudge Mispersuasion Misprofess Misrate Misrelate Misreport Misrepresent Misrepresentation Misrepresented Misrepresenter Misrepresenting Misseem Missemblance Misspelled Misstating Mistakingly Misvouch Miszealous Mock Mockery Momentous Moon Morling Mountebank Name Necessarily Notion Oath Opinion Opossum Pagan Paganism Paralogism Paralogize Paralogy Pass Passable Perfidious Periwig Perjure Perjured Perjurer Perjuring Perjury Personage Petrific Philosophism Phlogiston Play Poison Pretend Pretended Pretendedly Pretending Pretense Pretension Pretext Prevaricate Prevarication Priscillianist Problem Prophet Prove Provost Pseudo Pseudo-apostle Pseudo-china Pseudo-galena Pseudograph Pseudology Quarter Reason Reasoning Recreant Rectify Refutable Refutation Refute Refuted Refuting Religion Repay Reprobation Reversal Sacrifice Sagacity Scandal Seducement Seducer Serious Serve Sham Sheer Shortness Signal Simulation Sincerity Slander Slandered Slanderous Slanderously Sooterkin Sophism Sophistry Spurious Spuriously Spuriousness Stab Stay Strumpet Suborn Subornation Suborned Suborner Suborning Subreptitious Superstition Suppose Supposition Surmise Sway Swear Swearing Swift Tell Temper Temperament Tete Theoretically Thief Tinsel Tissue Ton Tradition Trail Tritone True Trumpery Truth Tumid Tumor Twit Unaffectedly Understanding Undisguised Undissembling Unobjectionable Untrue Untruly Untruth Utter Vain Vaunt-mure Vice Warrantable Whip Winnow Wise Worship
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