eng: false - UWN/MENTA

eng: false

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Meaning
means	(adjective) not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" false
means	(adjective) arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" false, mistaken
means	(adjective) erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" false
means	(adjective) deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses" false
means	(adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" false, delusive
means	(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" fake, false, faux, simulated, imitation
means	(adjective) designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom" false
means	(adjective) inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" off-key, false, sour
means	(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" assumed, false, put on, fictitious, pretended, sham, fictive
means	(adjective) (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" untrue, false
means	(adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" treasonably, false, treacherously, traitorously, faithlessly
means	e/de/False (Unix)

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