Meaning & Definition of False in English

1. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• "Gave false testimony under oath"

• "False tales of bravery"

2. Arising from error

• "A false assumption"

• "A mistaken view of the situation"

3. Erroneous and usually accidental

• "A false start"

• "A false alarm"

4. Deliberately deceptive

• "False pretenses"

5. Inappropriate to reality or facts

• "Delusive faith in a wonder drug"

• "Delusive expectations"

• "False hopes"

6. Not genuine or real

• Being an imitation of the genuine article

• "It isn't fake anything

• It's real synthetic fur"

• "Faux pearls"

• "False teeth"

• "Decorated with imitation palm leaves"

• "A purse of simulated alligator hide"

7. Designed to deceive

• "A suitcase with a false bottom"

8. Inaccurate in pitch

• "A false (or sour) note"

• "Her singing was off key"

9. Adopted in order to deceive

• "An assumed name"

• "An assumed cheerfulness"

• "A fictitious address"

• "Fictive sympathy"

• "A pretended interest"

• "A put-on childish voice"

• "Sham modesty"

10. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection

• Unfaithful

• "A false friend"

• "When lovers prove untrue"

1. In a disloyal and faithless manner

• "He behaved treacherously"

• "His wife played him false"