false
Part of speech: adj
verb
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).
Inflected forms:
form: falser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: falsest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: falses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: falsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: falsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: falsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more false
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most false
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: falses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
pos: adj
examples: Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
gloss: Based on factually incorrect premises.
pos: adj
examples: false legislation, false punishment
gloss: Spurious, artificial.
pos: adj
examples: false teeth
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
gloss: Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
pos: adj
gloss: Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
pos: adj
examples: a false witness
gloss: Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
pos: adj
examples: a false friend, lover, or subject;  false to promises
I to my ſelf was falſe, e’re thou to me,[…]
She had been in Baton Rouge but a little over two weeks, when suddenly his letters ceased. She awaited in anxious suspense a whole week — no letter. Another week dragged heavily, and her anxiety became a terrible fear. Was he sick and unable to write — was he dead — or, still more terrible thought, had he proved false?
gloss: Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
pos: adj
examples: a false conclusion;  a false construction in grammar
So downe he fell, as an huge rockie clift, / Whoſe falſe foundacion waues haue waſht away,[…]
gloss: Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
pos: adj
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: false scorpion (an arachnid)
false killer whale (a dolphin)
false powderpost beetles (members of Bostrichidae not in Lyctinae)
gloss: Out of tune.
pos: adj
gloss: To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
pos: verb
gloss: To begin a race before being instructed to do so; to do a false start.
pos: verb
examples: Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
gloss: To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And he that could with giftes and promiſes,
Inueigle him that lead a thouſand horſe,
And make him falſe his faith vnto his King,
Will quickly win ſuch as be like himſelfe.
gloss: To counterfeit, to forge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
pos: adv
examples: Sweet Lord, you play me falſe.
gloss: One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
pos: noun
examples: The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.
Synonyms: lease
Derived words: bear false witness
false 9
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
false borrowing
false bottom
false buttonweed
falsecard
false chanterelle
false cirrus
false cognate
false colour
false conception
false consciousness
false cousin
false croup
false cypress
false daisy
false dandelion
false dawn
false dichotomy
false dilemma
false documentary
falsedom
false door
false drop
false easting
false economy
false equivalence
false eyelash
false eyelashes
false face
falseface
false fire
false-flag
false flag
false flagged
false-flagger
false flagger
false flagging
false flat
false flax
false foxglove
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 horsewood
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 mesquite
false miterwort
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 tree
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
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