| Main Entry: |
false |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
wrong, made up |
Synonyms: |
apocryphal, beguiling,
bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual,
deceitful, deceiving,
delusive,
dishonest,
distorted,
erroneous,
ersatz*,
fake,
fallacious,
fanciful,
faulty,
fictitious, fishy,
fraudulent,
illusive,
imaginary,
improper,
inaccurate,
incorrect, inexact,
invalid,
lying,
mendacious,
misleading, misrepresentative,
mistaken, off the mark,
phony,
sham, sophistical,
specious,
spurious, trumped up,
unfounded,
unreal, unsound,
untrue, untruthful
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| Notes: |
fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
Antonyms: |
accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid
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