false
IPA: fˈɔɫs
noun
- One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
verb
- (electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
- (obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
- (obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
- (obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
adjective
- Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Based on factually incorrect premises.
- Spurious, artificial.
- (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
- Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
- Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
- Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
- (music) Out of tune.
- (electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 0.
adverb
- In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
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Examples of "false" in Sentences
- The consequent is obviously false.
- The alibi is later found to be false.
- The affirmation is both true and false.
- That's the fallacy of the false dilemma.
- The False dilemma is related to the claim.
- The ideas of race are scientifically false.
- The difference in the false reporting is slanderous.
- The claim that the hypothesis is false is unjustified.
- It is the belief that the proposition of theism is false.
- The Sin will be the false transgression of a false divine law which is Satan.
- My action should not plunge you into an abyss of woe; but _now_ that he is false -- _false as Hell_ ---- "
- No, she is _false, false, false_, -- _false_ as the lost angels who fell from paradise into the burning pit of doom. '
- The only trace of Tom and Tim were their names on the marquee... which gave a whole new meaning to the term "false advertising."
- These are so contemptible and so absurdly false, that they do not merit any other notice than to write _false_, _false_, on every page. "
- _false doctrine, heresy and schism_: false doctrine is the thought; heresy, the plan; and schism, the action -- of a Churchman against the
- 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?
- 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.
- 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_.