false
adjective
[ fɔːls ]
• not according with truth or fact; incorrect.
• "he was feeding false information to his customers"
Similar:
incorrect,
untrue,
wrong,
erroneous,
fallacious,
faulty,
flawed,
distorted,
inaccurate,
inexact,
imprecise,
invalid,
unfounded,
untruthful,
fictitious,
concocted,
fabricated,
invented,
made up,
trumped up,
unreal,
counterfeit,
forged,
fraudulent,
spurious,
misleading,
deceptive,
• made to imitate something in order to deceive.
• "the trunk had a false bottom"
• illusory; not actually so.
• "sunscreens give users a false sense of security"
• disloyal; unfaithful.
• "a false lover"
Similar:
faithless,
unfaithful,
disloyal,
untrue,
inconstant,
false-hearted,
treacherous,
traitorous,
perfidious,
two-faced,
Janus-faced,
double-dealing,
double-crossing,
deceitful,
deceiving,
deceptive,
dishonourable,
dishonest,
duplicitous,
hypocritical,
untrustworthy,
unreliable,
untruthful,
lying,
mendacious,
cheating,
two-timing,
back-stabbing,
hollow-hearted,
double-faced,
Origin:
Old English fals ‘fraud, deceit’, from Latin falsum ‘fraud’, neuter past participle of fallere ‘deceive’; reinforced or re-formed in Middle English from Old French fals, faus ‘false’.
