| 单词 | false |
| 释义 | false (once / 79 pages) 1adjadv 2adj 3adj Something that's false is wrong or untrue. If you spread false rumors about a friend, you're telling lies. When you read a fact in a textbook that you know is mistaken, you can describe it as false. Giving someone a false impression about your family's pizza place — implying that it's a fancy restaurant when it's really a take-out counter and a pizza oven — means you're giving the wrong idea. False can also mean "fake," as in false eyelashes or a false smile. It comes from the Old French fals, which is faux in Modern French: "false,fake, incorrect, or mistaken." WORD FAMILYfalse: falsehood, falsely, falseness, falser, falses, falsest, falsity+/falsehood: falsehoods/falseness: falsenesses/falsity: falsities USAGE EXAMPLESA widely shared story that claimed Pope Francis called for merging Islam and Christianity is false. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Airport officials said on Twitter that the false alarm was triggered by a bag in a screening device. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) In some cases, the lies he told were so utterly, demonstrably false that they were almost funny. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality gave false testimony under oath false tales of bravery Syn|Ant incorrect, wrong not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth counterfeit, imitativenot genuine; imitating something superior dishonest, dishonorabledeceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive insincerelacking sincerity mendaciousintentionally untrue specious, spuriousplausible but false trumped-upconcocted with intent to deceive untruenot according with the facts true consistent with fact or reality; not false correct, rightfree from error; especially conforming to fact or truth faithfulsteadfast in affection or allegiance echt, genuinenot fake or counterfeit honest, honorablenot disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent sincereopen and genuine; not deceitful actual, genuine, literal, realbeing or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something apodeictic, apodicticof a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain truthfulconforming to truth sureinfallible or unfailing 2adj inappropriate to reality or facts false hopes Syn delusive unrealistic not realistic 3adj not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article false teeth Syn fake, faux, imitation, simulated artificial, unreal contrived by art rather than nature 4adj arising from error a false assumption Syn mistaken incorrect, wrong not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth 5adj erroneous and usually accidental a false start a false alarm Syn invalid having no cogency or legal force 6adj (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful a false friend Syn untrue inconstant likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable 7adv in a disloyal and faithless manner 2his wife played him false Syn faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably 1adj deliberately deceptive false pretenses Syn insincere lacking sincerity 2adj designed to deceive a suitcase with a false bottom Syn dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive 3adj adopted in order to deceive 3Syn assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham counterfeit, imitative not genuine; imitating something superior adj inaccurate in pitch a false (or sour) note Syn off-key, sour inharmonious, unharmonious not in harmony |
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