false

How to use false in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for false.

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If a higher dosage produces nothing, then this was a false positive.

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Quick take

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of false gathered in one view.

adjective

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

adjective

arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

adjective

erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for false.

adjective

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

adjective

arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"

adjective

erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"

adjective

deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

adjective

inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

adjective

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"

See also: fake, faux, imitation, simulated

adjective

designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"

adjective

inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

adjective

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"

See also: assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, sham

adjective

(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"

adverb

in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false"

Example sentences

If a higher dosage produces nothing, then this was a false positive.

Unfortunately we made a mistaken and made the default setting false.

Here, the result would turn on the ability to show that the parties sued are in fact engaged in false or deceptive advertising.

I feel more productive when working by myself, but I know that personal perceptions of productivity can be false.

They felt entitled to prevent the taking of pictures in the restaurant and felt they were being played with false official documentation.

Is claiming that his "pre-lesson routine" can always be dismissed as two minutes of Googling disingenuous and patently false?

During his detention he was repeatedly sexually assaulted, withheld legal counsel, and coerced to confess with false promises of freedom.

Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

So this false dichotomy of "creatives" and mechanistic science robots propped up by people who simply don't want to learn math and are mad that not knowing math and science is less of a badge of honor in society anymore misses the point.

We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist.

One competitor can indeed sue another competitor for private damages and other relief if the other competitor is gaining an unfair competitive advantage by falsely advertising that its products or services do something that is material to the customer's decision to use that product or service.