What is false?

More definitions of "false":

• (adj): Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article.
  Example: "False teeth"
  Synonyms: fake, faux, imitation, simulated

• (adj): Designed to deceive.
  Example: "A suitcase with a false bottom"

• (adj): (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful.
  Example: "A false friend"
  Synonyms: untrue

• (adj): Deliberately deceptive.
  Example: "False pretenses"
  Synonyms: hollow

• (adj): Adopted in order to deceive.
  Synonyms: assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham

• (adj): Arising from error.
  Example: "A false assumption"
  Synonyms: mistaken

• (adj): Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
  Example: "Gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

• (adj): Inaccurate in pitch.
  Example: "A false (or sour) note"
  Synonyms: off-key, sour

• (adj): Erroneous and usually accidental.
  Example: "A false start"; "a false alarm"

• (adv): In a disloyal and faithless manner.
  Example: "His wife played him false"
  Synonyms: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably

Famous quotes containing the word false:

“I have been born many times, a false Messiah,
but let me be born again
into something true.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)