false


Definition: Meaning of, false in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / fɔːls;fɒls /

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false falser falsest
  1. not in accordance with the fact, reality or actuality
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  2. arising from error
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  3. erroneous and usually accidental
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  4. deliberately deceptive
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  5. inappropriate to reality or facts
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  6. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
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  7. designed to deceive
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  8. inaccurate in pitch
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  9. adopted in order to deceive
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  10. used especially of persons not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
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  1. in a disloyal and faithless manner
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false used in phrases

  • California false morel (noun)
    1. a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California
  • bearing false witness (noun)
    1. criminal offence of making false statements under oath
  • blue false indigo (noun)
    1. wild indigo of the eastern United States having racemes of blue flowers
  • false alarm (noun)
    1. a situation in which people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen
  • false alumroot (noun)
    1. plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-coloured or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho
  • false asphodel (noun)
    1. a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers
  • false azalea (noun)
    1. straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
  • false baby's breath (noun)
    1. eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
  • false beachdrops (noun)
    1. fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys
  • false belief (noun)
    1. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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