Antonyms for false
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fawls |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔls |
Definition of false
Origin :- late 12c., from Old French fals, faus (12c., Modern French faux) "false, fake, incorrect, mistaken, treacherous, deceitful," from Latin falsus "deceived, erroneous, mistaken," past participle of fallere "deceive, disappoint," of uncertain origin (see fail).
- Adopted into other Germanic languages (cf. German falsch, Dutch valsch, Danish falsk), though English is the only one in which the active sense of "deceitful" (a secondary sense in Latin) has predominated. False alarm recorded from 1570s. Related: Falsely; falseness.
- adj wrong, made up
- adj dishonest, hypocritical
- adj fake, counterfeit
- It was not that she could not say "I have done no wickedness;" let us place this heroine in no false light.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She could feel its false precision, its intention, its repulse of her.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Had her father forced her into the false position in which she found herself?
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- But Mammon was never the name of an idol or other form of false deity.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- The false cannot inherit the true nor the unclean the lovely.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Who is there, save a false traitor, who would refuse to serve the English king?
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Since Mary hath played me false, I can scarce fight for her.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- That all this is true to Shakespeare appears from the fact that it is false to the character of Proteus.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- It is impossible to doubt that "false Cressid" was meant for Mary Fitton.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
Synonyms for false
- adulterated
- alloyed
- apocryphal
- apostate
- artificial
- assumed
- base
- beguiling
- bent
- bogus
- brummagem
- bum
- canting
- casuistic
- colored
- concocted
- contrary to fact
- contrived
- cooked-up
- copied
- corrupt
- counterfactual
- crock
- crooked
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deceptive
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- disguised
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- distorted
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- erroneous
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- faithless
- fake
- fallacious
- falsehearted
- fanciful
- faulty
- feigned
- fictitious
- fishy
- forged
- forsworn
- foul
- framed
- fraudulent
- hollow
- illusive
- imaginary
- imitation
- improper
- inaccurate
- incorrect
- inexact
- invalid
- lying
- made-up
- make-believe
- malevolent
- malicious
- manufactured
- mean
- mendacious
- meretricious
- misleading
- misrepresentative
- mistaken
- mock
- mythomaniac
- off the mark
- ostensible
- perfidious
- perjured
- phony
- pretended
- pseudo
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- seeming
- shady
- sham
- simulated
- snide
- so-called
- sophistical
- specious
- spurious
- substitute
- synthetic
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- trumped up
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unfounded
- unreal
- unscrupulous
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
- wrong
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