false

Meanings

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
  • "gave false testimony under oath"
  • "false tales of bravery"
• arising from error
  • "a false assumption"
• erroneous and usually accidental
  • "a false start"
  • "a false alarm"
• deliberately deceptive
  • "false pretenses"
• inappropriate to reality or facts
  • "false hopes"
• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
  • "false teeth"
• designed to deceive
  • "a suitcase with a false bottom"
• inaccurate in pitch
  • "a false (or sour) note"
• adopted in order to deceive
• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
  • "a false friend"
• in a disloyal and faithless manner
  • "his wife played him false"

Synonyms

assumed, delusive, faithlessly, fake, faux, fictitious, fictive, imitation, mistaken, off-key, pretended, put on, sham, simulated, sour, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably, untrue