False

//fɔːls//

Synonyms for "false" (364 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (73)

untrue delusive dishonest fictitious insincere invalid mendacious mistaken spurious aberrant abroad adrift affected airy all abroad all in the mind all off all wrong ambidextrous amiss

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Verb(6 words)

assfuck betray burn cop out cross out cross up

Adjective(1 words)

assumed

Adjective(4 words)

bad bastard booky counterfactual

Adverb(1 words)

dastardly

Strong matches (109)

deceptive defective deluding delusional delusionary delusory dereistic derelict deviant deviational deviative devious disaffected disingenuous disloyal distorted double double dealing double-dealing double-faced

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Adjective(6 words)

delusive fake faux fictitious fictive imitation

Adverb(5 words)

dishonestly disloyally falsefully falsely illegitimately

Adjective(11 words)

disleal double-crossing double-hearted erroneous fallacious false-hearted fictitious guiled hollow-hearted illoyal inaccurate

Verb(5 words)

do someone dirty do the dirty on double-cross falsify go back on

Adverb(1 words)

faithlessly

Related words (182)

incorrect indirect inexact ingenuine insidious insubstantial lease lying machiavellian made-up manufactured mealymouthed meretricious misbegotten miscreated misleading mock not right not true not true to

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Adjective(32 words)

incorrect infidelitous ingenuine invented judaslike lease made up nonfactual nonfaithful nontrue nontruthful proditorious proditory pseudo punic reptilian reptitious spurious traitorish traitorlike

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traitorsome treachersome treasonous ungenuine unleal untrue untruthful unveracious unveridical viperish viperous wrong

Adverb(17 words)

insincerely judasly perfidiously proditoriously ratlike traitorly traitorously traitorwise treacherously truthlessly underhand underhanded underhandedly unfaithfully unsincerely untruly untruthfully

Verb(14 words)

knife let down play someone false quisle renegade sell sell down sell down the river sell out sell the pass stab in the back swike traitorize turncoat

Adjective(8 words)

mistaken off-key pretended put on sham simulated sour untrue

Adverb(3 words)

traitorously treacherously treasonably

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

Antonyms

3 entries

real true

Synonyms

8 entries

delusive faux fictitious lease mistaken off key treacherously untrue

derived

169 entries

bear false witness false 9 false Queen Anne's lace false acacia false action false advertising false alarm false albacore false alder false analogy false antechinus false arrest false attack false balance false banana false blue indigo

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derived from

1 entries

falsify

distinct from

1 entries

true

etymologically related_to

2 entries

lease leasing

has context

3 entries

electronics logic music

not has_property

1 entries

true

related to

25 entries

allegiance artificial boolean counterfeit deceitful dishonest erroneous factual factually faithful falsehood firm founded incorrect insincere logic

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similar

26 entries

artificial counterfeit dishonest dishonorable imitative inconstant incorrect inharmonious insincere invalid mendacious specious

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Translations

249 translations across 65 languages.

Ancient Greek

2 entries

πλαστός adj (spurious, artificial)
ψευδής adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Arabic

4 entries

بَاطِل adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
زَائِف adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
فلصو adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
كَاذِب adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Armenian

3 entries

կեղծ adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
կեղծ adj (spurious, artificial)
սխալ adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Assamese

2 entries

ভুৱা adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
মিছা adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Asturian

2 entries

falsu adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falsu adj (spurious, artificial)

Basque

1 entries

faltsu adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Breton

1 entries

gaou adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Bulgarian

4 entries

грешен adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
изкуствен adj (spurious, artificial)
неверен adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
фалшив adj (spurious, artificial)

Catalan

4 entries

artificial adj (spurious, artificial)
fals adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
fals adj (spurious, artificial)
fals adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

假 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
虛假 /虚假 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
虛偽 /虚伪 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Cornish

1 entries

gaw adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

yañlış adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Czech

4 entries

falešný adj (spurious, artificial)
imitovaný adj (spurious, artificial)
nepravdivý adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
nepravý adj (spurious, artificial)

Dalmatian

1 entries

fuals adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Danish

3 entries

falsk adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
kunstig adj (spurious, artificial)
usand adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Dutch

4 entries

fout adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
onecht adj (spurious, artificial)
onjuist adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
onwaar adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Esperanto

3 entries

falsa adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
malvera adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
nevera adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Finnish

4 entries

epälojaali adj (not faithful or loyal)
epärehellinen adj (uttering falsehood)
epätosi adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
epätosi adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

French

4 entries

artificiel adj (spurious, artificial)
faux adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
faux adj (spurious, artificial)
faux adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Galician

2 entries

falso adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (spurious, artificial)

Georgian

3 entries

ტყუილი adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
ყალბი adj (spurious, artificial)
ცრუ adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

German

4 entries

falsch adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falsch adj (spurious, artificial)
falsch adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
unecht adj (spurious, artificial)

Greek

4 entries

κίβδηλος adj (spurious, artificial)
νόθος adj (spurious, artificial)
πλαστός adj (spurious, artificial)
ψευδής adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

fo adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Hebrew

4 entries

לא נכון adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
מזוייף adj (spurious, artificial)
מזוייפת adj (spurious, artificial)
מזויפות adj (spurious, artificial)

Hindi

2 entries

खोटा adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
झूठा adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Hungarian

4 entries

hamis adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
hamis adj (spurious, artificial)
hamis adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
hamis adj (uttering falsehood)

Icelandic

2 entries

rangur adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
ósannur adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Ido

4 entries

falsa adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falsa adj (based on factually incorrect premises)
falsa adj (spurious, artificial)
falsa adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Indonesian

2 entries

buatan adj (spurious, artificial)
salah adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Ingrian

1 entries

perätöin adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Interlingua

2 entries

false adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
false adj (spurious, artificial)

Irish

4 entries

bréag adj (spurious, artificial)
bréagach adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
bréagach adj (spurious, artificial)
bréagach adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Italian

4 entries

bugiardo adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
errato adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Japanese

3 entries

偽 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
偽 adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
虚偽 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Korean

1 entries

거짓 adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

арамза adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
жасалма adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
жаңылыш adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
ката adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Latin

3 entries

falsus adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
fictus adj (spurious, artificial)
mendāx adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Latvian

4 entries

kļūdains adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
mākslīgs adj (spurious, artificial)
nepareizs adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
viltots adj (spurious, artificial)

Lithuanian

4 entries

dirbtinis adj (spurious, artificial)
klaidingas adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
neteisingas adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
netikras adj (spurious, artificial)

Malay

2 entries

palsu adj (spurious, artificial)
salah adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Māori

4 entries

hewa adj (based on factually incorrect premises)
horihori adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
hāwatewate adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
kēā adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Norman

2 entries

faux adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
faux adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Occitan

1 entries

fals adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Old English

1 entries

lēas adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

ساخته adj (spurious, artificial)
یالان adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
یالان adj (based on factually incorrect premises)
یالان adj (spurious, artificial)

Persian

1 entries

غلط adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

faulsch adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
faulsch adj (based on factually incorrect premises)

Polish

4 entries

błędny adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
fałszywy adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
nieprawdziwy adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
sztuczny adj (spurious, artificial)

Portuguese

4 entries

artificial adj (spurious, artificial)
errado adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (spurious, artificial)

Romanian

4 entries

artificial adj (spurious, artificial)
contrafăcut adj (spurious, artificial)
fals adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
fals adj (spurious, artificial)

Russian

4 entries

ло́жный adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
ложь adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
непра́вильный adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
фальши́вый adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Sanskrit

4 entries

अशुद्ध adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
असत् adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
असत्य adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
आसत् adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Sardinian

1 entries

fàlsu adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

breugach adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
breugach adj (spurious, artificial)
fuadain adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
fuadain adj (spurious, artificial)

Spanish

4 entries

espurio adj (spurious, artificial)
falaz adj (uttering falsehood)
falso adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falso adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Swedish

4 entries

falsk adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
falskt adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
falskt adj (music: out of tune)
konstgjord adj (spurious, artificial)

Sylheti

1 entries

ꠝꠤꠍꠣ adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Turkish

4 entries

sahte adj (spurious, artificial)
yalan adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
yanlış adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
yanlış adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Ukrainian

3 entries

неправди́вий adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
хи́ба adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)
хи́бний adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Urdu

3 entries

جھوٹھا adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
غلط adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
کھوٹا adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Vietnamese

2 entries

sai adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
sai adj (state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result)

Volapük

2 entries

dobik adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
neveratik adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Welsh

4 entries

anghywir adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
anwir adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
ffug adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)
gau adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Yiddish

1 entries

פֿאַלש adj (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.

Source: tatoeba (1973)

I have false nearsightedness.

Source: tatoeba (25318)

The rumor turned out false.

Source: tatoeba (26638)

In order to elude the eager public, the movie star checked into the hotel under a false name.

Source: tatoeba (27347)

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