false
Forms
- Comparative
- falser
- Superlative
- falsest
- Comparative
- more false
- Superlative
- most false
- Plural
- falses
- present (v1)
- false
- past (v2)
- falsed
- past participle (v3)
- falsed
- present participle
- falsing
- 3rd person singular
- falses
Definitions
1.Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
- Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
2.Based on factually incorrect premises.
- He gave the police a false name and address.
3.Spurious, artificial.
- He gave the police a false name and address.
4.Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
- He gave the police a false name and address.
1.To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
2.To begin a race before being instructed to do so; to do a false start.
- Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
1.In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
1.One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
- The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2107
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Antonyms
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.