false

Etymology
From, , from , from , perfect passive participle of. Reinforced in Middle English by 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬,. Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; all from 🇨🇬. Displaced native 🇨🇬,, from 🇨🇬; See ,. .

The verb is from, , from , from , itself also from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
 * 2) Based on factually incorrect premises.
 * 3) Spurious, artificial.
 * 4)  Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
 * 5) Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
 * 6) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
 * 7) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
 * 8) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
 * 9)  Out of tune.
 * 1) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
 * 2) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
 * 3) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
 * 4)  Out of tune.
 * 1) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
 * 2) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
 * 3)  Out of tune.
 * 1) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
 * 2)  Out of tune.
 * 1)  Out of tune.
 * 1)  Out of tune.
 * 1)  Out of tune.
 * 1)  Out of tune.
 * 1)  Out of tune.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:false
 * See also Thesaurus:false

Collocations

 * false alarm
 * false name
 * false teeth
 * false pretenses
 * false step
 * false position
 * false hope
 * false witness
 * false prophet
 * false sense
 * false information
 * false statement
 * false imprisonment
 * false impression
 * false consciousness
 * false start
 * false belief
 * false idea
 * false conclusion


 * completely false
 * entirely false
 * utterly false
 * patently false
 * totally false
 * obviously false
 * clearly false
 * simply false
 * absolutely false
 * necessarily false

Translations

 * Arabic: زَائِف, بَاطِل, كَاذِب
 * Egyptian Arabic: فلصو
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: মিছা, ভুৱা
 * Asturian: falsu
 * Basque: faltsu
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: gaw
 * Crimean Tatar: yañlış
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: fuals
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: malvera, nevera
 * Finnish:, , , vale-
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცრუ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ψευδής
 * Haitian Creole: fo
 * Hebrew: שקרי, לא נכון
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: perätöin
 * Interlingua: false
 * Irish: bréagach, bréige
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:, , ,
 * Latin: falsus,
 * Latvian: nepareizs, kļūdains
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maori: patē, parau, horihori, meho, tipatipa, teka, hāwatewate, kēā
 * Norman: faux
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: lēas
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: faulsch
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Vedic: आसत्
 * Sardinian: fàlsu
 * Scottish Gaelic: breugach, fuadain
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠝꠤꠍꠣ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: неправди́вий, хи́бний
 * Urdu: جھوٹھا, غلط, کھوٹا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: ,
 * Welsh: anwir,, ,
 * Yiddish: פֿאַלש


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Ido:
 * Maori: hewa
 * Plautdietsch: faulsch


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: falsu
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, postís,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, imitovaný, nepravý,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ყალბი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: πλαστός
 * Hebrew: מזוייף,, תותבת
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: false
 * Irish: bréag-, bréagach, bréige, falsa
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: fictus
 * Latvian: viltots, mākslīgs
 * Lithuanian:, netikras
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: breugach, meallta, mealltach, fuadain
 * Spanish: postizo
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: שקרי
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: bréagach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: faux
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хи́ба
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: كَاذِب
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Maori: mākiri


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Swedish:


 * Indonesian:
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
 * 2)  To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
 * 3)  To counterfeit, to forge.
 * 4)  To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
 * 1)  To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.

Adverb

 * 1) In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.

Noun

 * 1) One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.

Adverb

 * 1) falsely, mistakenly