From en.wiktionary.org:
[FALSE]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], perfect passive participle of [la].
Reinforced in Middle English by [xno] and [fro], [fro]. Compare [sco], [sco],
[stq], [de], [nl], [sv] and [da]; all from [la]. Displaced native [enm],
[enm], from [ang]; See [en], [en]. [en].
The verb is from [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], itself also from [la];
compare [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Untrue , not factual , factually incorrect .
2. * [en]
3. Based on factually incorrect premises .
4. Spurious , artificial .
5. * [Silverside]
6. [en] Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
7. Uttering falsehood ; dishonest or deceitful .
8. Not faithful or loyal , as to obligation s, allegiance , vow s, etc.; untrue ; treacherous .
9. * [book=Samson Agonistes]
10. * [en]
11. Not well founded ; not firm or trustworthy ; erroneous .
12. * [book=I]
13. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
14. [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.]
15. [en] Out of tune .
**** Synonyms
- [en]
- See also Thesaurus:false
**** Antonyms
- [untrue] [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|bear false witness |false 9 |false acacia |false action |false
advertising |false alarm |false albacore |false alder |false analogy |false
antechinus |false arrest|false foxglove |false attack |false balance|false
cirrus|false eyelash |false banana |false blue indigo |false borrowing |false
bottom |false buttonweed |falsecard |false chanterelle |false cognate |false
colour|false cypress|false dandelion |false conception |false consciousness
|false cousin |false croup |false daisy |false dawn |false dichotomy |false
dilemma |false documentary |falsedom |false drop |false easting |false economy
|false equivalence |false eyelashes |falseface |false face |false fire |false
flag |false-flag |false flagged |false flagger |false-flagger |false flagging
|false flat |false flax |false friend |false fruit |falseful |false galena
|false gavial |false gharial |false grip |false harmonic |falseheart
|false-hearted |false-heartedly |false-heartedness |false hellebore |false
hemp |false hermaphrodite |false holly |falsehood |false imprisonment |false
ironwort |false jewel beetle |false keel |false key |false light |false lily
of the valley |false loan |false loose smut |false mallow |false map turtle
|false mastic |false mayweed |false measles |false memory |false memory
syndrome |false-memory syndrome |false mermaid |false modesty |false monarch
|false morel |false move |falsen |false negative |falseness |false nine |false
northing |false note |false number 9 |false owlet moth |false oxlip |false
pimpernel |false pineapple |false plane tree |false plum anemone |false
positive |false potato beetle |false pregnancy |false pretence |false pretense
|false primary |false quarter |false Queen Anne's lace |false rail |false
relation |false rhubarb |false rib |false saber-toothed cat |false
sabre-toothed cat |false sandalwood |false scent |false scorpionfish |false
sergeant |false sharing |false shower |false signal |false start |false step
|false strawberry |false summit |false tack |false teeth |false trevally
|false truffle |false vacuum |false vampire bat |false verbena |false violet
|false violin spider |false widow |false witness |falsework |false works
|falsie |falsifiable |falsification |falsify |falsish |falsism |falsity |falsy
|feathery false lily of the valley |nonfalse |partial false friend |play
someone false |put someone in a false position |ring false |rough-leaf false
vervain |sail under false colors |shrubby false buttonweed |strike a false
note |superfalse |tralse |true-false |true or false |true-or-false |unfalse
|yellow false indigo }}
**** Collocations
[2]
- false alarm
- false name
- false teeth
- false pretenses
- false step
- false position
- false hope
- false witness
- false prophet
- false sense
- false information
- false statement
- false imprisonment
- false impression
- false consciousness
- false start
- false belief
- false idea
- false conclusion
[col-bottom] [2]
- completely false
- entirely false
- utterly false
- patently false
- totally false
- obviously false
- clearly false
- simply false
- absolutely false
- necessarily false
[col-bottom]
**** Translations
[untrue, not factual, wrong]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Basque: [eu]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [prefix] [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa] , [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Ecuador] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[based on factually incorrect premises]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Ido: [io]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
[trans-bottom]
[spurious, artificial]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] [prosthetic] , [he] [prosthetic]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Malay: [ms]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[uttering falsehood]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[not faithful or loyal]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[not well founded, erroneous]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[not essential or permanent]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[music: out of tune]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal .
2. To begin a race before being instructed to do so; to do a false start .
3. * [en]
4. [en] To violate , to betray (a promise , an agreement , one’s faith , etc.).
5. * [part=1]
6. [en] To counterfeit , to forge .
7. [en] To make false, to corrupt from something true or real .
*** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
2. * [V]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Galician
*** Verb
[gl]
1. [falsar]
** Italian
*** Pronunciation
[fàlse]
*** Adjective
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Adverb
[falsē]
1. falsely , mistakenly
*** Noun
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:du Cange]
- [R:Gaffiot]
** Old English
*** Pronunciation
- [false]
*** Noun
[ang]
1. [ang]
*** Adjective
[ang]
1. [ang]
** Portuguese
*** Verb
[pt]
1. [falsar]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [falsar]