false

false is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as adverb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
2. superlative. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
3. superlative. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
4. superlative. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
5. superlative. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
6. superlative. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
7. superlative. Not in tune.
8. adverb. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
9. adjective. To report falsely; to falsify.
10. adjective. To betray; to falsify.
11. adjective. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
12. adjective. To feign; to pretend to make.
13. adjective. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

    "a false friend"

    "when lovers prove untrue"

    Synonyms: untrue

14. adjective. arising from error

    "a false assumption"

    "a mistaken view of the situation"

    Synonyms: mistaken

15. adjective. adopted in order to deceive

    "an assumed name"

    "an assumed cheerfulness"

    Synonyms: assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, sham

16. adjective. inaccurate in pitch

    "a false (or sour) note"

    "her singing was off key"

    Synonyms: sour

17. adjective. designed to deceive

    "a suitcase with a false bottom"

18. adjective. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

    "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"

    "faux pearls"

    Synonyms: fake, faux, imitation, simulated

19. adjective. inappropriate to reality or facts

    "delusive faith in a wonder drug"

    "delusive expectations"

    Synonyms: delusive

20. adjective. deliberately deceptive

    "false pretenses"

21. adjective. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

    "gave false testimony under oath"

    "false tales of bravery"

22. adjective. erroneous and usually accidental

    "a false start"

    "a false alarm"

23. adverb. in a disloyal and faithless manner

    "he behaved treacherously"

    "his wife played him false"

    Synonyms: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably

Synonyms

untrue, mistaken, assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, sham, sour, fake, faux, imitation, simulated, delusive, faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in false:

alefs, fleas, leafs

Common word forms

falser, falsely, falsest, falseness

Words from these letters

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