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Definition of False

False Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. Not in tune. Not truly; not honestly; falsely. To report falsely; to falsify. To betray; to falsify. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. To feign; to pretend to make. Related Definitions: According, Allegiance, Are, As, Assumed, Betray, By, Claim, Conclusion, Construction, Counterfeit, Deceit, Deceive, Designed, Disappoint, Erroneous, Essential, Faithful, False, Falsehood, Falsely, Falsify, Feign, Firm, Fitted, Founded, Friend, Genuine, Given, Grammar, Honestly, Hypocritical, In, Jewelry, Likely, Lover, Loyal, Make, Mislead, Modesty, Not, Of, Or, Perfidious, Permanent, Pretend, Real, Reality, Report, Statement, Structure, Subject, Supplemental, Temporary, To, Treacherous, True, Truly, Trustworthy, Truth, Tune, Untrue, Uttering, Want, Well, Which, With, Witness

False Quotations To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

False Translations false in Afrikaans is verkeerd, vals false in Danish is falsk false in Dutch is loos, bedrieglijk, dubbelhartig false in German is unwahr false in Italian is fasullo, imitato false in Latin is reproba, falsus false in Norwegian is falsk, uekte false in Portuguese is falso false in Spanish is impropio, falso false in Swedish is falsk, osann

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