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false in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. adopted in order to deceive
    "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
    assumed  false  fictitious  fictive  pretended  put on  sham 
  2. inappropriate to reality or facts
    "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
    delusive  false 
  3. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
    "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"
    fake  false  faux  imitation  simulated 
  4. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
    "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
    false 
  5. designed to deceive
    "a suitcase with a false bottom"
    false 
  6. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
    "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
    false  untrue 
  7. arising from error
    "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
    false  mistaken 
  8. inaccurate in pitch
    "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
    false  off-key  sour 
  9. deliberately deceptive
    "false pretenses"
    false 
  10. erroneous and usually accidental
    "a false start"; "a false alarm"
    false 
adverb
  1. in a disloyal and faithless manner
    "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
    faithlessly  traitorously  treacherously  treasonably  false  faithlessly  traitorously  treacherously  treasonably  false 
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