Definition of False

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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.

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False Quotations

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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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