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false

adjective

1 he gave a false account of his movements:

incorrect, untrue, wrong, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, flawed, distorted, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, invalid, unfounded;

untruthful, fictitious, concocted, fabricated, invented, made up, trumped up, unreal, counterfeit, forged, fraudulent, spurious, misleading, deceptive.

▷antonyms correct; truthful.

2 Briggs proved himself a false friend:

faithless, unfaithful, disloyal, untrue, inconstant, false-hearted, treacherous, traitorous, perfidious, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-dealing, double-crossing, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, dishonourable, dishonest, duplicitous, hypocritical, untrustworthy, unreliable;

untruthful, lying, mendacious;

informal cheating, two-timing, back-stabbing;

rare hollow-hearted, double-faced.

▷antonyms faithful.

3 she would never wear false pearls:

fake, artificial, imitation, synthetic, simulated, reproduction, replica, ersatz, faux, plastic, man-made, dummy, mock, sham, bogus, so-called;

counterfeit, feigned, forged;

informal phoney, fakey, pretend, pseudo.

▷antonyms genuine.

false Oxford Dictionary of English