1. Not in accordance with the fact, reality or actuality
   "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
    
2. Deliberately deceptive
   "false pretences"
    
3. Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
   "false teeth";
   - fake, faux, imitation, simulated
    
4. Designed to deceive
   "a suitcase with a false bottom"
    
5. Arising from error
   "a false assumption";
   - mistaken
    
6. Erroneous and usually accidental
   "a false start"; "a false alarm"
    
7. Inappropriate to reality or facts
   "false hopes";
   - delusive
    
8. Adopted in order to deceive
   "She used a false name to hide her identity";
   - assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
    
9. Inaccurate in pitch
   "a false note";
   - off-key, sour
    
10. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful
    "a false friend";
    - untrue

1. In a disloyal and faithless manner
   "his wife played him false";
   - faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably

Derived forms: falser, falsest

See also: artificial, counterfeit, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], imitative, inconstant, incorrect, inharmonious, insincere, invalid, mendacious, specious, spurious, the true, trueness, trumped-up, truth, unharmonious, unreal, unrealistic, untrue, verity, wrong

Antonym: true

Encyclopedia: False