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• (a) not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
• (r) in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"
• (s) arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
• (s) erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
• (s) deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
• (s) inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
• (s) 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"
• (s) designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
• (s) inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
• (s) 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"
• (s) (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"

false Synonyms

• assumed
• delusive
• faithlessly
• fake
• false
• faux
• fictitious
• fictive
• hollow
• imitation
• mistaken
• off-key
• pretended
• put on
• sham
• simulated
• sour
• traitorously
• treacherously
• treasonably
• untrue