What is another word for false

What is another word for False?

  • untrue

    erroneous, incorrect

  • sham

    fake, quality

  • spurious

    sham, artificial

  • fake

    quality, sham

  • wrong

    incorrect, characteristic

  • incorrect

    characteristic, correct

  • mistaken

    incorrect, characteristic

  • counterfeit

    quality, sham

  • fallacious

    deceptive, incorrect

  • erroneous

    incorrect, characteristic

  • unfaithful

    continue, dishonest

  • deceitful

    treacherous, faithless

  • inaccurate

    characteristic, correct

  • dishonest

    wrong, treacherous

  • fraudulent

    untrue, quality

  • treacherous

    faithless, continue

  • untruthful

    true, wrong

  • simulated

    fake, artificial

  • artificial

    fake, synthetic

  • perfidious

    faithless, continue

  • fictitious

    sham, wrong

  • bogus

    fake, artificial

  • deceptive

    property, fake

  • misleading

    deceptive, property

  • specious

    true, correct

  • traitorous

    treacherous, continue

  • mendacious

    wrong, treacherous

  • deceiving

    deceptive, property

  • faithless

    character trait, continue

  • delusive

    wrong, dishonest

  • invalid

    correct

  • unsound

    correct, treacherous

  • forged

    participle, artificial

  • disloyal

    faithless, character trait

  • imitation

    artificial

  • pseudo

    sham, catchy

  • faulty

    erroneous, mistaken

  • unreal

    untrue, pretended

  • phony

    true, unprincipled

  • assumed

    supposed

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  • bogus
  • deceitful
  • dishonest
  • distorted
  • erroneous
  • fake
  • fanciful
  • faulty
  • fictitious
  • fraudulent
  • improper
  • inaccurate
  • incorrect
  • invalid
  • misleading
  • mistaken
  • phony
  • specious
  • spurious
  • unfounded
  • unreal
  • untrue
  • untruthful
  • apocryphal
  • beguiling
  • casuistic
  • concocted
  • contrary to fact
  • cooked-up
  • counterfactual
  • deceiving
  • delusive
  • ersatz
  • fallacious
  • fishy
  • illusive
  • imaginary
  • inexact
  • lying
  • mendacious
  • misrepresentative
  • off the mark
  • sham
  • sophistical
  • trumped-up
  • unsound
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • malicious
  • misleading
  • apostate
  • base
  • beguiling
  • canting
  • corrupt
  • crooked
  • deceiving
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • devious
  • dishonorable
  • disloyal
  • double-dealing
  • duplicitous
  • faithless
  • falsehearted
  • forsworn
  • foul
  • lying
  • malevolent
  • mean
  • mythomaniac
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • rascally
  • recreant
  • renegade
  • scoundrelly
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
  • two-faced
  • underhanded
  • unfaithful
  • unscrupulous
  • untrustworthy
  • venal
  • villainous
  • wicked
  • bogus
  • contrived
  • deceptive
  • fabricated
  • forged
  • hollow
  • phony
  • spurious
  • unreal
  • wrong
  • adulterated
  • alloyed
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • bent
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • colored
  • copied
  • crock
  • disguised
  • ersatz
  • factitious
  • feigned
  • fishy
  • framed
  • imitation
  • made-up
  • make believe
  • manufactured
  • meretricious
  • mock
  • ostensible
  • pretended
  • pseudo
  • seeming
  • shady
  • sham
  • simulated
  • snide
  • so-called
  • substitute
  • synthetic

On this page you’ll find 315 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to false, such as: bogus, deceitful, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, and fake.

antonyms for false

  • accurate
  • authentic
  • correct
  • fair
  • faithful
  • frank
  • genuine
  • honest
  • moral
  • open
  • proven
  • real
  • right
  • sincere
  • sound
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • truthful
  • valid
  • actual
  • factual
  • just
  • known
  • precise
  • reliable
  • straight
  • substantiated
  • frank
  • honest
  • open
  • truthful
  • upright
  • accurate
  • actual
  • correct
  • factual
  • genuine
  • just
  • known
  • precise
  • real
  • reliable
  • right
  • straight
  • substantiated
  • true
  • valid
  • authentic
  • frank
  • genuine
  • honest
  • real
  • sincere
  • truthful
  • accurate
  • actual
  • correct
  • factual
  • just
  • known
  • precise
  • reliable
  • right
  • straight
  • substantiated
  • true
  • valid

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WORDS RELATED TO FALSE

  • affected
  • artificial
  • assuming
  • bland
  • canting
  • captious
  • caviling
  • deceptive
  • deluding
  • dissembling
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • duplicitous
  • faithless
  • false
  • feigning
  • fishy
  • fraudulent
  • glib
  • hollow
  • insincere
  • jivey
  • left-handed
  • lying
  • moralistic
  • oily
  • pharisaic
  • pharisaical
  • phony
  • pietistic
  • pious
  • sanctimonious
  • self-righteous
  • smooth
  • smooth-spoken
  • smooth-tongued
  • snide
  • specious
  • spurious
  • two-faced
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • unreliable
  • apish
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • awkward
  • campy
  • chichi
  • conceited
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeited
  • faked
  • false
  • feigned
  • fraudulent
  • gone Hollywood
  • hammy
  • highfalutin
  • hollow
  • imitated
  • insincere
  • la-di-da
  • melodramatic
  • ostentatious
  • overdone
  • pedantic
  • phony
  • playacting
  • pompous
  • precious
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • put on
  • schmaltzy
  • self-conscious
  • shallow
  • sham
  • simulated
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • studied
  • superficial
  • theatrical
  • unnatural
  • awry
  • bad
  • confused
  • crooked
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • fallacious
  • false
  • faulty
  • flawed
  • foul
  • glitched up
  • haywire
  • imperfect
  • improper
  • inaccurate
  • inappropriate
  • incorrect
  • mistaken
  • out of order
  • sick
  • unfair
  • unlawful
  • unsuitable
  • untoward
  • counterfeit
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • equivocal
  • false
  • fictitious
  • inaccurate
  • mythical
  • spurious
  • unauthenticated
  • ungenuine
  • unsubstantiated
  • untrue
  • unverified
  • wrong
  • assumed
  • contrived
  • false
  • feigned
  • forced
  • hollow
  • insincere
  • labored
  • mannered
  • meretricious
  • phony
  • put on
  • spurious
  • theatrical
  • unnatural
  • affected
  • deceptive
  • ephemeral
  • false
  • flaunting
  • illusory
  • imitative
  • overblown
  • popular
  • popularized
  • pretentious
  • pseudo
  • tasteless

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How is the word false different from other adjectives like it?

Some common synonyms of false are disloyal, faithless, perfidious, traitorous, and treacherous. While all these words mean «untrue to what should command one’s fidelity or allegiance,» false stresses the fact of failing to be true in any manner ranging from fickleness to cold treachery.

betrayed by false friends

When is disloyal a more appropriate choice than false?

Although the words disloyal and false have much in common, disloyal implies a lack of complete faithfulness to a friend, cause, leader, or country.

disloyal to their country

When is it sensible to use faithless instead of false?

The words faithless and false can be used in similar contexts, but faithless applies to any failure to keep a promise or pledge or any breach of allegiance or loyalty.

How are the words perfidious and faithless related as synonyms of false?

Perfidious adds to faithless the implication of an incapacity for fidelity or reliability.

a perfidious double-crosser

Where would traitorous be a reasonable alternative to false?

In some situations, the words traitorous and false are roughly equivalent. However, traitorous implies either actual treason or a serious betrayal of trust.

traitorous acts punishable by death

When can treacherous be used instead of false?

The synonyms treacherous and false are sometimes interchangeable, but treacherous implies readiness to betray trust or confidence.

What is another word for false?

1042 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈɒls], [ fˈɒls], [ f_ˈɒ_l_s]

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Similar words for false:

  • affected (adjective)

  • all (adjective)

  • amiss (adjective)

  • apocryphal (adjective)

  • artificial (adjective)

  • arty (adjective)

  • assumed (adjective)

  • bastard (adjective)

  • bogus (adjective)

  • colored (adjective)

  • contrived (adjective)

  • counterfactual (adjective)

  • counterfeit (adjective)

  • deceitful (adjective)

  • deceptive (adjective)

  • delusive (adjective)

  • disguised (adjective)

  • dishonest (adjective)

  • dishonest, hypocritical (adjective)

  • disingenuous (adjective)

  • disloyal (adjective)

  • erroneous (adjective)

  • evasive (adjective)

  • exaggerated (adjective)

  • faithless (adjective)

  • fake, counterfeit (adjective)

  • false (adjective)

  • false-hearted (adjective)

  • faulty (adjective)

  • fictitious (adjective)

  • flimsy (adjective)

  • forced (adjective)

  • groundless (adjective)

  • hypocritical (adjective)

  • illogical (adjective)

  • illusive (adjective)

  • illusory (adjective)

  • improper (adjective)

  • inaccurate (adjective)

  • incorrect (adjective)

  • insidious (adjective)

  • insincere (adjective)

  • insubstantial (adjective)

  • invalid (adjective)

  • invented (adjective)

  • la-di-da (adjective)

  • libelous (adjective)

  • lying (adjective)

  • lying under oath (adjective)

  • made-up (adjective)

  • make-believe (adjective)

  • mala fide (adjective)

  • misleading (adjective)

  • mistaken (adjective)

  • mock (adjective)

  • mythical (adjective)

  • mythical/mythological (adjective)

  • mythologic (adjective)

  • other relevant words (adjective)

  • perfidious (adjective)

  • pharisaic (adjective)

  • plastic (adjective)

  • pretentious (adjective)

  • recreant (adjective)

  • sanctimonious (adjective)

  • self-righteous (adjective)

  • sham (adjective)

  • slippery (adjective)

  • spurious (adjective)

  • strained (adjective)

  • substitute (adjective)

  • synthetic (adjective)

  • trumped up (adjective)

  • unapt (adjective)

  • unbefitting (adjective)

  • unfaithful (adjective)

  • unfounded (adjective)

  • unnatural (adjective)

  • unreal (adjective)

  • unreliable (adjective)

  • unsound (adjective)

  • untrue (adjective)

  • untrustworthy (adjective)

  • wrong (adjective)

  • wrong, made up (adjective)

  • assumed (noun)

  • cheat (noun)

  • faithlessly (noun)

  • false (noun)

  • imitation (noun)

  • other relevant words (noun)

  • phoniness (noun)

  • pretended (verb)

  • other synonyms
  • cordial

  • counterfeit

  • deceitful

  • unconfirmed

  • unproven

  • untrue

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Antonyms for false

  • adj.

    affected (adjective)

    • more put-on,
    • fraud,
    • schmaltzy,
    • hammiest,
    • hamest,
    • self conscious,
    • more counterfeited,
    • high falutin’,
    • simulated,
    • pretentious,
    • most counterfeited,
    • frauder,
    • most faked,
    • more put on,
    • more playacting,
    • ostentatious,
    • selfconscious,
    • most put on,
    • over-done,
    • hamer,
    • more affected,
    • puton,
    • most put-on,
    • more puton,
    • most playacting,
    • more faked,
    • hammier,
    • shallow,
    • most puton,
    • shallower,
    • fraudest,
    • over done.

    all (adjective)

    • false.

    amiss (adjective)

    • haywire,
    • un fairer,
    • foul,
    • un fair,
    • un fairest,
    • un lawful,
    • in appropriate,
    • more flawed,
    • unsuitable,
    • un-fairest,
    • in-appropriate,
    • un-fairer,
    • most flawed,
    • un-fair,
    • out order,
    • sickest,
    • un-suitable,
    • un-lawful,
    • un suitable.

    apocryphal (adjective)

    • unauthenticated,
    • ungenuine.

    artificial (adjective)

    • more falsie,
    • more fabricated,
    • most falsie,
    • most fabricated.

    arty (adjective)

    • Flaunting,
    • Popularized,
    • imitative.

    assumed (adjective)

    • fakest,
    • fake,
    • most imitation,
    • more imitation.

    bastard (adjective)

    • mis born,
    • more misborn,
    • impure,
    • mis-born,
    • most mongrel,
    • mis-begotten,
    • mis begotten,
    • most misborn,
    • more mongrel,
    • most inferior.

    bogus (adjective)

    • not what is cracked be,
    • not what is cracked to be,
    • dummiest,
    • not what is cracked up be,
    • dummier,
    • not what it is cracked be,
    • not what it is cracked to be,
    • not what it is cracked up be,
    • not what is cracked up to be.

    colored (adjective)

    • warped,
    • tampered with.

    contrived (adjective)

    • more recherche,
    • most manipulated,
    • more manipulated,
    • most recherche,
    • more elaborate,
    • un spontaneous,
    • un-spontaneous,
    • more unspontaneous,
    • most unspontaneous.

    counterfactual (adjective)

    • counter factual,
    • counter-factual.

    counterfeit (adjective)

    • crockest,
    • most hollywood,
    • two faced,
    • plantest,
    • planter,
    • most pirate,
    • wont fly,
    • more pirate,
    • pirate,
    • more hollywood,
    • twofaced,
    • snide.

    deceitful (adjective)

    • double-dealing,
    • most deceiving,
    • doubledealing,
    • more feline,
    • in-direct,
    • under-hand,
    • de-signing,
    • most feline,
    • most impostrous,
    • under-handed,
    • more rascal,
    • more beguiling,
    • most rascal,
    • in direct,
    • most astucious,
    • more deceiving,
    • more impostrous,
    • more astucious,
    • most beguiling,
    • de signing,
    • under handed,
    • under hand.

    deceptive (adjective)

    • seeming,
    • illusive,
    • delusive,
    • delusory,
    • illusory,
    • Imposturous.

    delusive (adjective)

    • visionary.

    disguised (adjective)

    • under cover,
    • dis guised,
    • in-cog,
    • more pretend,
    • pre tend,
    • more incog,
    • dis-guised,
    • most incog,
    • Incog,
    • most pretend,
    • masked,
    • under-cover,
    • in cog,
    • pre-tend.

    dishonest (adjective)

    • deceptive,
    • untrue,
    • roguish.

    dishonest, hypocritical (adjective)

    • malevolent,
    • mean,
    • duplicitous,
    • devious,
    • malicious,
    • unscrupulous,
    • venal,
    • underhanded,
    • corrupt,
    • Deluding,
    • base,
    • traitorous,
    • treasonable,
    • mythomaniac,
    • rascally,
    • Perjured,
    • dishonorable,
    • wicked,
    • Canting,
    • villainous,
    • renegade,
    • apostate,
    • scoundrelly,
    • crooked,
    • Forsworn.

    disingenuous (adjective)

    • unfrank,
    • Uncandid.

    disloyal (adjective)

    • dis-loyal,
    • more estranged,
    • most estranged,
    • unpatriotic,
    • un loyal,
    • dis loyal,
    • un-loyal,
    • more unpatriotic,
    • dis-affected,
    • more apostate,
    • dis affected,
    • most unpatriotic,
    • more unloyal,
    • un-patriotic,
    • most apostate,
    • un patriotic,
    • most unloyal.

    erroneous (adjective)

    • marred,
    • miscalculated,
    • defective,
    • way off,
    • distorted,
    • all off,
    • misestimated,
    • wrong number,
    • fallacious,
    • Misconstrued,
    • inexact,
    • inaccurate,
    • Misconceived,
    • botched,
    • incorrect,
    • misjudged,
    • all wet,
    • illogical.

    evasive (adjective)

    • casuistical,
    • casuistic,
    • Elusory,
    • sophistical.

    exaggerated (adjective)

    • hyperbolic,
    • overkill,
    • highly colored,
    • overestimated,
    • sensational,
    • over-wrought,
    • caricatural,
    • too-too,
    • out of proportion.

    faithless (adjective)

    • in-constant,
    • un stable,
    • doubting,
    • un converted,
    • un stabler,
    • un stablest,
    • more fluctuating,
    • most changeful,
    • more changeful,
    • un-stabler,
    • more unconverted,
    • un-stable,
    • most fluctuating,
    • un-converted,
    • most unconverted,
    • un believing,
    • in constant,
    • un-stablest,
    • un-believing.

    fake, counterfeit (adjective)

    • copied,
    • shady,
    • disguised,
    • bent,
    • bum,
    • framed,
    • hollow,
    • crock,
    • substitute,
    • brummagem,
    • mock,
    • ostensible,
    • adulterated,
    • forged,
    • alloyed,
    • feigned,
    • so-called,
    • manufactured,
    • imitation,
    • fabricated,
    • meretricious.

    false (adjective)

    • phony,
    • fraudulent,
    • fictional.

    false-hearted (adjective)

    • false hearted.

    faulty (adjective)

    • in complete,
    • more lemon,
    • most blemished,
    • most botched,
    • most unretentive,
    • more malfunctioning,
    • most imprecise,
    • more imprecise,
    • lame,
    • un-retentive,
    • in-complete,
    • malformed,
    • de-based,
    • most malfunctioning,
    • more marred,
    • most marred,
    • un fit,
    • in-sufficient,
    • in sufficient,
    • most lemon,
    • lamest,
    • more unretentive,
    • in-adequate,
    • more blemished,
    • un retentive,
    • in adequate,
    • more botched,
    • un-fit,
    • lemon,
    • de based,
    • insufficient.

    fictitious (adjective)

    • cooked-up,
    • figmental,
    • invented.

    flimsy (adjective)

    • more ungrounded,
    • un grounded,
    • un satisfactory,
    • un substantial,
    • trivial,
    • trans parent,
    • un believable,
    • un-satisfactory,
    • in-conceivable,
    • in credible,
    • trans-parent,
    • un persuasive,
    • in-credible,
    • more controvertible,
    • un reasonable,
    • un-persuasive,
    • trifling,
    • un-substantial,
    • most controvertible,
    • un-grounded,
    • un-reasonable,
    • most unpersuasive,
    • most ungrounded,
    • un-believable,
    • more unpersuasive,
    • in conceivable.

    forced (adjective)

    • be-grudging,
    • more grudging,
    • be grudging,
    • more conscripted,
    • most begrudging,
    • most coerced,
    • in voluntary,
    • in-voluntary,
    • in flexible,
    • slavest,
    • in-flexible,
    • most grudging,
    • more begrudging,
    • most conscripted,
    • more coerced,
    • more compelled,
    • un-willing,
    • un willing,
    • most compelled.

    groundless (adjective)

    • unwarranted,
    • unprovoked,
    • uncalled for,
    • causeless,
    • unsupported,
    • Foundationless.

    hypocritical (adjective)

    • left handed,
    • most feigning,
    • most smooth-spoken,
    • most smoothspoken,
    • pietistic,
    • more smooth-spoken,
    • most caviling,
    • smoothspoken,
    • hypo-critical,
    • hypo critical,
    • more smoothspoken,
    • most moralistic,
    • jivier,
    • jiviest,
    • most smooth spoken,
    • smooth spoken,
    • feigning,
    • smoothtongued,
    • more feigning,
    • selfrighteous,
    • smooth tongued,
    • more smooth spoken,
    • more moralistic,
    • self righteous,
    • more caviling,
    • lefthanded.

    illogical (adjective)

    • in-congruous,
    • self contradictory,
    • un-connected,
    • more self-contradictory,
    • in consequent,
    • off wall,
    • more selfcontradictory,
    • more self contradictory,
    • un-tenable,
    • most self-contradictory,
    • in-consequent,
    • most self contradictory,
    • un scientific,
    • in-conclusive,
    • un connected,
    • un-scientific,
    • off the wall,
    • un tenable,
    • unproved,
    • irrelevant,
    • selfcontradictory,
    • un proved,
    • in-consistent,
    • most selfcontradictory,
    • in consistent,
    • in conclusive,
    • un-proved,
    • meaningless,
    • in congruous.

    illusive (adjective)

    • unread.

    illusory (adjective)

    • more barmecidal,
    • most illusory,
    • more semblant,
    • most barmecidal,
    • floatest,
    • most semblant.

    improper (adjective)

    • at odds,
    • off-base,
    • out-of-season,
    • out-of-place,
    • ill timed,
    • illtimed,
    • unbefitting,
    • unfitting,
    • ill-timed,
    • inapposite,
    • Unapt.

    inaccurate (adjective)

    • more way off,
    • most way off,
    • way-off,
    • most wayoff,
    • in accurate,
    • most way-off,
    • off base,
    • more wayoff,
    • doesnt wash,
    • more way-off,
    • wayoff,
    • in-accurate.

    incorrect (adjective)

    • in-correct,
    • un seemly,
    • not trustworthy,
    • un seemliest,
    • wide the mark,
    • un seemlier,
    • in correct,
    • wide mark,
    • un-seemlier,
    • un-seemliest.

    insidious (adjective)

    • like a snake in the grass.

    insincere (adjective)

    • in sincere,
    • in-sincere,
    • dis simulating,
    • in sincerest,
    • most dissimulating,
    • in sincerer,
    • dis-simulating,
    • more dissimulating,
    • in-sincerer,
    • in-sincerest.

    insubstantial (adjective)

    • in corporeal,
    • fly by night,
    • in-corporeal,
    • in firmest,
    • in-firmest,
    • too little too late,
    • in firm,
    • in-firmer,
    • in-substantial,
    • in firmer,
    • meta-physical,
    • meta physical,
    • in substantial.

    invalid (adjective)

    • in-operative,
    • more ill-founded,
    • ill founded,
    • un reasoned,
    • illfounded,
    • null void,
    • more illfounded,
    • un-reasoned,
    • most ill founded,
    • more ill founded,
    • in valid,
    • most ill-founded,
    • in-valid,
    • null and void,
    • most illfounded,
    • more reasonless,
    • most reasonless,
    • in operative.

    invented (adjective)

    • in vented,
    • in-vented.

    la-di-da (adjective)

    • la di da.

    libelous (adjective)

    • calumniatory,
    • libelous,
    • Detractory,
    • Aspersive.

    lying (adjective)

    • mis-representing,
    • more falsifying,
    • more misstating,
    • fibbing,
    • most inventing,
    • in-venting,
    • most misstating,
    • more inventing,
    • mis representing,
    • mis-stating,
    • in venting,
    • most fibbing,
    • more fibbing,
    • mis stating,
    • more misrepresenting,
    • most misrepresenting,
    • most falsifying.

    lying under oath (adjective)

    • Perjurious.

    made-up (adjective)

    • made up.

    make-believe (adjective)

    • mythical.

    mala fide (adjective)

    • mala fide.

    misleading (adjective)

    • mis-leading,
    • more demagogic,
    • most confounding,
    • most bewildering,
    • be-wildering,
    • more distracting,
    • most distracting,
    • more confounding,
    • be wildering,
    • more bewildering,
    • most demagogic,
    • mis leading.

    mistaken (adjective)

    • mis understanding,
    • mis-interpreting,
    • more misjudging,
    • more misunderstanding,
    • most misinterpreting,
    • more misconstrued,
    • more tricked,
    • un-advised,
    • misinformed,
    • un advised,
    • mis-judging,
    • mis construed,
    • mis judging,
    • most misconstrued,
    • more misinformed,
    • most misinformed,
    • most misjudging,
    • mis-taken,
    • mis-construed,
    • most duped,
    • mis informed,
    • more misinterpreting,
    • mis-informed,
    • mis-understanding,
    • most misunderstanding,
    • mis taken,
    • more duped,
    • most tricked,
    • barking wrong tree,
    • mis interpreting,
    • unadvised.

    mock (adjective)

    • more mimic,
    • socalled,
    • so called,
    • most mimic.

    mythical (adjective)

    • more fairy-tale,
    • most fairy-tale,
    • more fairytale,
    • most fairy tale,
    • more fairy tale,
    • most fairytale.

    mythical/mythological (adjective)

    • more folkloric,
    • folkloric,
    • non existent,
    • most folkloric.

    mythologic (adjective)

    • mythologic.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • insubstantial,
    • smooth-spoken,
    • jivey,
    • faulty,
    • not following,
    • apocryphal,
    • not genuine,
    • of bad faith,
    • pharisaical,
    • fictitious,
    • mistaken,
    • committing perjury,
    • snake in grass,
    • fair-weather,
    • Controvertible,
    • flawed,
    • pretended,
    • misleading,
    • synthetic,
    • in poor health,
    • imprecise,
    • in error,
    • under wrong impression,
    • unnatural,
    • spurious,
    • fairy-tale,
    • amiss,
    • forced,
    • made-up,
    • bastard,
    • campy,
    • without foundation,
    • Crocker,
    • barking up wrong tree,
    • trumped up,
    • slippery,
    • moonlighting,
    • not real,
    • out of line,
    • evasive,
    • False-hearted,
    • mythological,
    • demagogic,
    • pseudo,
    • unfaithful,
    • fair weather,
    • dishonest,
    • ill-founded,
    • unconforming,
    • moralistic,
    • Astucious,
    • ungrounded,
    • not kosher,
    • not legit,
    • high falutin,
    • unconverted,
    • flimsy,
    • suppositious,
    • manmade,
    • unloyal,
    • erroneous,
    • sophistic,
    • doesn’t wash,
    • la-di-da,
    • mythic,
    • blue sky,
    • Trustless,
    • unfounded,
    • quack,
    • Impostrous,
    • Truthless,
    • disloyal,
    • specious,
    • wrong,
    • groundless,
    • unspontaneous,
    • untrusty,
    • recherche,
    • unassured,
    • conscripted,
    • extra ordinary,
    • wide of mark,
    • strained,
    • not binding,
    • counterfeit,
    • arty,
    • pseudonymous,
    • improper,
    • floater,
    • not what it is cracked up to be,
    • deceitful,
    • bogus,
    • fairytale,
    • not working,
    • hyped up,
    • factitious,
    • hammy,
    • off track,
    • unpersuasive,
    • Double dealing,
    • counterfactual,
    • won’t fly,
    • apparently right,
    • without basis,
    • unbacked,
    • campier,
    • contrived,
    • adulterine,
    • Misborn,
    • supposititious,
    • colored,
    • confused with,
    • changeful,
    • soft shell,
    • ersatz,
    • disingenuous,
    • unreal,
    • not true to,
    • faithless,
    • glitched up,
    • self-contradictory,
    • falsehearted,
    • unsound,
    • plastic,
    • Semblant,
    • Non-existent,
    • invalid,
    • malfunctioning,
    • reasonless,
    • hypocritical,
    • unreliable,
    • affected,
    • untrustworthy,
    • insidious,
    • out of place,
    • artificial,
    • treacherous,
    • faux,
    • campiest,
    • unretentive,
    • man-made,
    • wrongly identified,
    • make-believe,
    • exaggerated.

    perfidious (adjective)

    • snake grass,
    • un-dependable,
    • snake the grass,
    • un dependable,
    • more betraying,
    • most betraying.

    pharisaic (adjective)

    • pharisaic.

    plastic (adjective)

    • more cast,
    • most cast.

    pretentious (adjective)

    • imposture,
    • mannered,
    • showy,
    • stiff,
    • theatrical,
    • stagy,
    • overdone,
    • stilted,
    • histrionic,
    • studied,
    • facade,
    • Masquerading,
    • posing,
    • Impersonating.

    recreant (adjective)

    • meanspirited,
    • pigeonhearted.

    sanctimonious (adjective)

    • pre achiest,
    • pre-achiest,
    • pre achier,
    • pre achy,
    • goodygoody,
    • holier than thou,
    • pre-achy,
    • self satisfied,
    • goody goody,
    • pre-achier,
    • selfsatisfied.

    self-righteous (adjective)

    • sanctimonious.

    sham (adjective)

    • more plaster,
    • most plaster.

    slippery (adjective)

    • in secure,
    • un predictable,
    • un steadier,
    • un steady,
    • un-safest,
    • mutable,
    • un-predictable,
    • un steadiest,
    • un safest,
    • in-secure,
    • un-steadier,
    • un-safer,
    • un safer,
    • in-securest,
    • un-steadiest,
    • in securer,
    • un-safe,
    • un safe,
    • in securest,
    • in-securer.

    spurious (adjective)

    • more unauthentic,
    • most unauthentic,
    • unauthentic,
    • un-authentic,
    • un authentic.

    strained (adjective)

    • hard put,
    • wrecker,
    • unrelaxed,
    • unglued,
    • taut,
    • at end of rope,
    • nervous wreck,
    • strung out,
    • in a state.

    substitute (adjective)

    • vicarial,
    • replacement,
    • proxier,
    • Substitutive.

    synthetic (adjective)

    • more constructed,
    • most constructed.

    trumped up (adjective)

    • de-vised,
    • de vised,
    • most devised,
    • more devised.

    unapt (adjective)

    • out place,
    • un-becoming,
    • un apter,
    • un-apter,
    • un-aptest,
    • un becoming,
    • un aptest.

    unbefitting (adjective)

    • in delicate,
    • un-befitting,
    • in-decent,
    • in-decorous,
    • in-delicate,
    • in decent,
    • in decorous,
    • un befitting.

    unfaithful (adjective)

    • fore sworn,
    • most philandering,
    • fore-sworn,
    • more moonlighting,
    • in-continent,
    • un-chaster,
    • foresworn,
    • un chaste,
    • un chaster,
    • un-chastest,
    • most adulterine,
    • un-faithful,
    • un chastest,
    • in continent,
    • most foresworn,
    • more foresworn,
    • more philandering,
    • more adulterine,
    • most moonlighting,
    • incontinent,
    • un-chaste,
    • un faithful.

    unfounded (adjective)

    • unproven,
    • un-founded,
    • more unproven,
    • un proven,
    • un-proven,
    • un founded,
    • most unproven.

    unnatural (adjective)

    • more staged,
    • un canny,
    • extra-ordinary,
    • un canniest,
    • un conforming,
    • un natural,
    • most staged,
    • super natural,
    • more unconforming,
    • un-conforming,
    • most unconforming,
    • un-canniest,
    • super-natural,
    • un-cannier,
    • un accountable,
    • un cannier,
    • un-usual,
    • un-natural,
    • un usual.

    unreal (adjective)

    • Storybook,
    • reachy,
    • notional.

    unreliable (adjective)

    • un reliable,
    • un-reliable,
    • un sure,
    • un-convincing,
    • un convincing,
    • un-sure.

    unsound (adjective)

    • in-sane,
    • more unbacked,
    • de-ranged,
    • de ranged,
    • un sound,
    • in saner,
    • un soundest,
    • un healthiest,
    • un healthy,
    • dis-eased,
    • un backed,
    • un-soundest,
    • un sounder,
    • un-balanced,
    • un-healthiest,
    • un-sounder,
    • un-hinged,
    • un healthier,
    • most unbacked,
    • in-saner,
    • not solid,
    • un-sound,
    • in sane,
    • in sanest,
    • un hinged,
    • un-healthy,
    • un-backed,
    • dis eased.

    untrue (adjective)

    • out line,
    • un true,
    • most forsworn,
    • un truer,
    • more forsworn,
    • un-true,
    • un-truer,
    • un-truest,
    • un truest.

    untrustworthy (adjective)

    • more trustless,
    • un-assured,
    • un assured,
    • un trustier,
    • most trustless,
    • most unassured,
    • un trustworthy,
    • more fair weather,
    • most fair-weather,
    • un-trustiest,
    • un trustiest,
    • more unassured,
    • un-trustworthy,
    • most fairweather,
    • more fair-weather,
    • finkest,
    • more conniving,
    • un-trusty,
    • most fair weather,
    • fairweather,
    • finker,
    • untrustier,
    • more fairweather,
    • un trusty,
    • most conniving,
    • un-trustier,
    • untrustiest.

    wrong (adjective)

    • illegal,
    • not right,
    • bad,
    • misfigured,
    • aberrant,
    • not precise,
    • off-target,
    • on the wrong track,
    • fluffed.

    wrong, made up (adjective)

    • fanciful,
    • fishy,
    • contrary to fact,
    • imaginary,
    • beguiling,
    • Misrepresentative,
    • Concocted,
    • off the mark,
    • Deceiving.
  • n.

    • hypothetical.

    • recreant,
    • trust,
    • continue.

    assumed (noun)

    • assumed.

    cheat (noun)

    • deceive,
    • trick,
    • betray.

    faithlessly (noun)

    • faithlessly.

    false (noun)

    • inharmonious,
    • insincere,
    • sour,
    • treacherously,
    • unharmonious,
    • traitorously,
    • mendacious,
    • treasonably,
    • inconstant,
    • trumped-up,
    • fictive,
    • put on,
    • off-key,
    • unrealistic.

    imitation (noun)

    • pinchbeck.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • slicks,
    • SLIES,
    • phonies,
    • phoniness,
    • sham,
    • character trait.

    phoniness (noun)

    • deceptives,
    • backhandeds,
    • disingenuou,
    • dis-ingenuousnesses,
    • dis ingenuousnesses,
    • mendaciou,
    • untrues,
    • un faithfuls,
    • two faceds,
    • un-faithfuls,
    • snides,
    • pretentiou,
    • dissimulatings,
    • evasives,
    • deceitfuls,
    • dis-ingenuousness,
    • duplicitou,
    • un-trues,
    • dissemblings,
    • falses,
    • hypocriticals,
    • deviou,
    • un trues,
    • twofaceds,
    • faithlesses,
    • unfaithfuls,
    • ambidextrou,
    • untruthfuls,
    • lyings,
    • dis ingenuousness,
    • perfidiou,
    • two-faceds,
    • shifties.
  • v.

    pretended (verb)

    • make believe.
  • Other synonyms:

    • cardboard,
    • sleek,
    • empty,
    • phantom,
    • slick,
    • perfidious,
    • legendary.

    • lying.

    cordial

    • hearty.

    counterfeit

    • dummy.

    deceitful

    • collusive,
    • two-faced.

    unconfirmed

    • unsubstantiated.

    unproven

    • unverified.

    untrue

    • untruthful.

How to use «False» in context?

positives

false positives happen when a test incorrectly identifies something as being the presence of a disease or substance when it is not. False positives can cause significant damage to a patient’s reputation and even mean they may have to take unnecessary medical measures. This is particularly important to remember when it comes to tests for cancer, as even a very small amount of cancer could cause a false positive and lead to unnecessary treatments.

Paraphrases for False:

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  • Equivalence

    • Coordinating conjunction
      fake.
    • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
      fake.
    • Adjective
      erroneous, fake, fallacious, fictitious, mendacious, misguided, phoney, spurious, trumped-up, untruthful.
    • Proper noun, singular
      fake.
    • Noun, plural
      wrongs, fakes, phonies.
    • Noun, singular or mass
      fake.
    • Interjection
      fake.
    • Verb, past participle
      faked.
  • Reverse Entailment

    • Noun, singular or mass
      falsehood.
  • Independent

    • Adjective
      adulterated, arbitrary, artificial, correct, counterfeit, deceit, deceitful, deceptive, defective, dishonest, distorted, faulty, faux, fictional, foul, groundless, hollow, hypocritical, illegal, illusory, imaginary, impractical, improper, inappropriate, incidental, invalid, perverse, simulated, skewed, specious, spontaneous, tendentious, unfair, unfounded, unjustified, unrealistic, unsubstantiated, unsuccessful, wrongful, Falsified, Misconceived, Counterfeited, ill-founded.
    • Proper noun, singular
      counterfeit, incidental, textiles.
    • Noun, plural
      Forgeries, Cops, Associations, Records, facts, counterfeits, blanks, lies, samples, incidentals.
    • Noun, singular or mass
      counterfeit, misconception, misrepresentation.
    • Verb, past participle
      fabricated, Falsified.
  • Other Related

    • Adjective
      baseless, disingenuous.

Homophones for False:

  • floozie, fly ash, flog, flawless, fleece, fallacy, fall guy, fleck, Felis Chaus, fleshy, filago, false sago, flag, file-like, flex, flakey, floccose, full house, falco, flux, foliage, felucca, flake, flossy, fluke, foolish, folks, fly high, falls, flack, folk, full-size, flaky, flashy, folksy, flock, fuel gauge, follies, flowage, fulica, flies, felicia, flukey, filch, flak, falsie, floss, fabulous, fils, foliose, flask, flick, flash, feel like, fleecy, flush, fluky, floc, flexuous, felis, floozy, flax, flesh, foliaceous, fallacious.

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Synonyms:
abate,
calm down,
check,
contract,
crumble,
curb,
curtail,
cut down,
decay,
decline.

Resources

  • FALSE synonyms at Thesaurus.com
  • FALSE synonyms and antonyms — Merriam-Webster dictionary
  • Powerthesaurus.org
    — FALSE synonyms
  • Collins Dictionary — synonyms of FALSE
  • YourDictionary
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Table of Contents

  1. What is opposite to false?
  2. What is the synonyms and antonyms of false?
  3. What is the verb for false?
  4. Is falseness a word?
  5. What is Perfidiousness?
  6. Is Erroneousness a word?
  7. How do you say aggressive in a positive way?
  8. What’s another word for passive-aggressive?
  9. What does passive-aggressive mean in simple terms?
  10. What is aggressive communication?
  11. How do you identify recognize if a person is a passive aggressive communicator?
  12. What is an example of aggressive communication?
  13. What does aggressive communication look like?
  14. What are the four styles of communication?
  15. How do you tell someone they are too aggressive?
  16. What are five communicative styles?
  17. What are different types of communicative style?
  18. What are the 6 types of communication?
  19. How do I know my communication style?
  20. What is the best communication style?
  21. What are the 3 main styles of communication?
  22. What is submissive communication style?
  23. What are the characteristics of a submissive?
  24. What is submissive Behaviour?
  25. What is commutative style?

SYNONYMS FOR false 1 mistaken, incorrect, wrong, untrue. 2 untruthful, lying, mendacious. 3 insincere, hypocritical, disingenuous, disloyal, unfaithful, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous.

What is opposite to false?

Antonym of False Word. Antonym. False. True, Authentic. Get definition and list of more Antonym and Synonym in English Grammar.

What is the synonyms and antonyms of false?

Synonyms & Antonyms of false

  • erroneous,
  • inaccurate,
  • incorrect,
  • inexact,
  • invalid,
  • off,
  • unsound,
  • untrue,

What is the verb for false?

falsify. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect. (transitive) To misrepresent.

Is falseness a word?

1. An erroneous or false idea: erroneousness, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, untruth.

What is Perfidiousness?

adjective. deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.

Is Erroneousness a word?

An erroneous or false idea: error, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, untruth.

How do you say aggressive in a positive way?

A positive word for aggressive might be assertive.

What’s another word for passive-aggressive?

Today, passive-aggressive is also used in everyday conversation to refer to a tendency some people have toward a less direct style of communication, especially communication that may create conflict. Some potential synonyms for this kind of behavior are negativistic, apathetic, petulant, or snide.

What does passive-aggressive mean in simple terms?

Passive-aggressive behavior is a pattern of indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. There’s a disconnect between what a passive-aggressive person says and what he or she does.

What is aggressive communication?

AGGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION is a style in which individuals express their feelings and opinions and advocate for their needs in a way that violates the rights of others. Thus, aggressive communicators are verbally and/or physically abusive. Aggressive communicators will often: ▪ try to dominate others.

How do you identify recognize if a person is a passive aggressive communicator?

Sulking, backhanded compliments, procrastination, withdrawal, and refusal to communicate are all signs of passive-aggression. When the other person begins acting in such a way, try to keep your anger in check. Instead, point out the other person’s feelings in a way that is non-judgmental yet factual.

What is an example of aggressive communication?

Aggressiveness is a mode of communication and behavior where one expresses their feelings, needs, and rights without regard or respect for the needs, rights, and feelings of others. Examples of an aggressive communication style include saying things like: “This is all your fault.” “It’s my way or the highway.”

What does aggressive communication look like?

The aggressive communication style is emphasized by speaking in a loud and demanding voice, maintaining intense eye contact and dominating or controlling others by blaming, intimidating, criticizing, threatening or attacking them, among other traits.

What are the four styles of communication?

There are four main communication styles: passive, passive-aggressive, aggressive, and assertive.

How do you tell someone they are too aggressive?

How to Deal With Aggressive People

  1. Remain calm. The absolute most important thing to do when dealing with someone who is being aggressive to you is to be calm and grounded.
  2. Empathize with the other person.
  3. Express your concern.
  4. Be honest with yourself.
  5. Talk about it.

What are five communicative styles?

Learn about the five styles of communication (assertive, passive, aggressive, submissive, and manipulative) and best practices to manage different personalities effectively.

What are different types of communicative style?

There are four types of unique communication styles that almost everyone falls into: passive, passive-aggressive, aggressive, and assertive. Most of the people that you speak with every day, customers and coworkers alike, will fall into one of these four categories.

What are the 6 types of communication?

there are at least 6 distinct types of communication: non-verbal, verbal-oral-face-to-face, verbal-oral-distance, verbal-written, formal and informal types of communication.

How do I know my communication style?

Understanding The 4 Communication Styles

  1. Intuitive communicators are unemotional and freeform.
  2. Analytical communicators are unemotional but linear.
  3. Functional communicators are emotional and linear.
  4. Personal communicators are emotional and freeform.

What is the best communication style?

Assertive communication

What are the 3 main styles of communication?

When communication occurs, it typically happens in one of three ways: verbal, nonverbal and visual. People very often take communication for granted.

What is submissive communication style?

The Submissive Communication Style This type of people try their best to please others and avoid conflict. They treat the needs of other as more important than theirs. They behave as if the other person has more rights and more to contribute.

What are the characteristics of a submissive?

8 Amazing Traits of Submissive People

  • Deep Self-Awareness. To understand who and what you are in general is a significant accomplishment.
  • Understanding of Trust. Healthy submissive people know how trust works.
  • Awareness of Others Needs.
  • Hard-Working.
  • Clear Boundaries.
  • Definiteness of Purpose.
  • Peace of Mind.
  • High Self-Esteem.

What is submissive Behaviour?

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adjective, fals·er, fals·est.

not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.

uttering or declaring what is untrue: a false witness.

not faithful or loyal; treacherous: a false friend.

tending to deceive or mislead; deceptive: a false impression.

not genuine; counterfeit.

based on mistaken, erroneous, or inconsistent impressions, ideas, or facts: false pride.

used as a substitute or supplement, especially temporarily: false supports for a bridge.

Biology. having a superficial resemblance to something that properly bears the name: the false acacia.

not properly, accurately, or honestly made, done, or adjusted: a false balance.

inaccurate in pitch, as a musical note.

adverb

dishonestly; faithlessly; treacherously: Did he speak false against me?

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Idioms about false

    play someone false, to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless.

Origin of false

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English fals, from Latin falsus “feigned, false,” originally past participle of fallere “to deceive”; reinforced by or reborrowed from Anglo-French, Old French fals (feminine false ), from Latin

synonym study for false

5. False, sham, counterfeit agree in referring to something that is not genuine. False is used mainly of imitations of concrete objects; it sometimes implies an intent to deceive: false teeth; false hair. Sham is rarely used of concrete objects and usually has the suggestion of intent to deceive: sham title; sham tears. Counterfeit always has the implication of cheating; it is used particularly of spurious imitation of coins, paper money, etc.

OTHER WORDS FROM false

falsely, adverbfalseness, nounhalf-false, adjectivequasi-false, adjective

quasi-falsely, adverb

Words nearby false

fall under, fall webworm, fall wind, Falmouth, FALN, false, false acacia, false alarm, false aloe, false ankylosis, false aralia

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Words related to false

bogus, deceitful, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, fake, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fraudulent, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, invalid, misleading, mistaken, phony, specious, spurious, unfounded

How to use false in a sentence

  • Additionally, The New York Times’ Daily Distortions vertical tracks false and misleading information, and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker was created in 2007 to hold mostly politicians accountable for false or misleading statements.

  • He’s concerned, in the meantime, that the rollout of vaccines could lead to a false sense of security, followed again by spikes in infections, but his focus continues to be on getting businesses to comply.

  • Increasingly, scientists have found that nonbiological chemical processes can create similar shapes, suggesting the possibility of “false positives” in the biological record.

  • “Parents can have a false sense of security, especially when they’re around their children all the time,” Olson said.

  • A reasonable person would assume she was talking about coronavirus cases and deaths — which would be false.

  • And no issue should be defined by its outliers because it paints a false picture.

  • He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.

  • “Nothing else to do” was the most common response for why people chose to go to The Ball, though that rang a little false to me.

  • He quotes an unnamed cardinal saying that the conclave voters knew the charges were false.

  • Once people with ID are arrested, they are particularly susceptible to making coerced and often false confessions.

  • But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.

  • The rest is done by cutting away two upper and four under-teeth, and substituting false ones at the desired angle.

  • He was thrashed at school before the Jews and the hubshi, for the heinous crime of bringing home false reports of progress.

  • I will not, therefore, say that the proposition that the value of everything equals the cost of production is false.

  • But his servant runs after the man, and gets two talents of silver and some garments under false pretences.

British Dictionary definitions for false


adjective

not in accordance with the truth or facts

irregular or invalida false start

untruthful or lyinga false account

not genuine, real, or natural; artificial; fakefalse eyelashes

being or intended to be misleading or deceptivea false rumour

disloyal or treacherousa false friend

based on mistaken or irrelevant ideas or factsfalse pride; a false argument

(prenominal) (esp of plants) superficially resembling the species specifiedfalse hellebore

serving to supplement or replace, often temporarilya false keel

music

  1. (of a note, interval, etc) out of tune
  2. (of the interval of a perfect fourth or fifth) decreased by a semitone
  3. (of a cadence) interrupted or imperfect

adverb

in a false or dishonest manner (esp in the phrase play (someone) false)

Derived forms of false

falsely, adverbfalseness, noun

Word Origin for false

Old English fals, from Latin falsus, from fallere to deceive

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Other Idioms and Phrases with false


In addition to the idioms beginning with false

  • false alarm
  • false colors
  • false start
  • false step

also see:

  • lull into (false sense of security)
  • play false
  • ring false

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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If the word ˜false™ in a is taken in the third sense, therefore, a’s primary significate does exist, since it is a fact that a is false in the third sense. ❋ Spade, Paul Vincent (2009)

The world may, and (as a matter of fact) does abound in false Churches, just as it abounds in false deities; but, this is rendered possible only _because they are false_. ❋ Unknown (1889)

This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is _false_: but what is it to Luther? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

No, she is _false, false, false_, — _false_ as the lost angels who fell from paradise into the burning pit of doom. ‘ ❋ Caroline Lee Hentz (1828)

_false doctrine, heresy and schism_: false doctrine is the thought; heresy, the plan; and schism, the action — of a Churchman against the ❋ Percival Jackson (N/A)

My action should not plunge you into an abyss of woe; but _now_ that he is false — _false as Hell_ —- » ❋ Harold Piffard (N/A)

These are so contemptible and so absurdly false, that they do not merit any other notice than to write _false_, _false_, on every page. » ❋ Unknown (1841)

The only trace of Tom and Tim were their names on the marquee… which gave a whole new meaning to the term «false advertising.» ❋ David Macaray (2011)

«On a mass scale, this gave new meaning to the term false advertising,» said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, during a news conference in Manhattan. ❋ By JENNA WORTHAM (2011)

They believed that as a man of goodwill he would reach beyond what I term false absolutes, the false absolutes of secular and religious ideologies, to engage in process the reality of what is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plato attempts to identify vicious pleasures with some form of error, and insists that the term false may be applied to them: in this he appears to be carrying out in a confused manner the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The term false foxglove, it should be explained, is by no means one of reproach for dishonesty; it was applied simply to distinguish this group of plants from the true foxgloves cultivated, not wild, here, which yield digitalis to the doctors. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

The term false positive is used when antivirus software wrongly classifies an innocuous (inoffensive) file as a virus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Friend 1: Dude, you need a [haircut]…
Friend 2: False.
(Friend 2 Indicates no haircut is needed.)
Friend 1: [Hey buddy], we should go to [the movies].
Friend 2: False.
(Friend 2 Indicates no movies will be attended.) ❋ M.H.Y. (2009)

Q: [who is] [the president] of [the united states]?
A: false ❋ Fuck You Foo (2007)

A) [I like big butts].
B) [False]! ❋ Bug (2003)

[2 + 2 = 5] is a false [statement]. ❋ SweetDivaKay (2020)

What, you [like me] false you? ❋ Mono (2005)

[Jack Black]: I could [26 skedew] you [a song], but that would be false. ❋ Ant C (2003)

[Man],you false. ❋ Sky (2003)

[I didn’t] [ride] in his [car]! Who false is that? ❋ Bi-Nola (2003)

[I swear] [I don’t like] her.
Dude, you’re [falsing]! ❋ ERICA, (2009)

*[Jim Halpert] is impersonating [Dwight]*
Jim Halpert: Question. What kind of bear is best?
Dwight: That’s a ridiculous question.
Jim: False. [Black Bear].
Dwight: That’s debatable… ❋ Starkid1111 (2011)

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