Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
- 2superlative
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
- 3superlative
Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
- 4superlative
Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
- 5superlative
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
- 6superlative
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
- 7superlative
Not in tune.
- 8adverb
Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
- 9adjective
To report falsely; to falsify.
- 10adjective
To betray; to falsify.
- 11adjective
To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
- 12adjective
To feign; to pretend to make.
- 13adjective
(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
"a false friend"
"when lovers prove untrue"
Synonyms
- 14adjective
arising from error
"a false assumption"
"a mistaken view of the situation"
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- 15adjective
adopted in order to deceive
"an assumed name"
"an assumed cheerfulness"
- 16adjective
inaccurate in pitch
"a false (or sour) note"
"her singing was off key"
Synonyms
- 17adjective
designed to deceive
"a suitcase with a false bottom"
- 18adjective
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
"it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"
"faux pearls"
- 19adjective
inappropriate to reality or facts
"delusive faith in a wonder drug"
"delusive expectations"
Synonyms
- 20adjective
deliberately deceptive
"false pretenses"
- 21adjective
not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
"gave false testimony under oath"
"false tales of bravery"
- 22adjective
erroneous and usually accidental
"a false start"
"a false alarm"
- 23adverb
in a disloyal and faithless manner
"he behaved treacherously"
"his wife played him false"
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