Usually means: Not true; incorrect; misleading representation.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word false:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. false: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. false: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. false: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. false: Collins English Dictionary
  5. false: Vocabulary.com
  6. False, false: Wordnik
  7. false: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FALSE, false: Wiktionary
  9. false: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. false: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. false: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. false: Dictionary.com
  13. false: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. false: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. False (Unix), False (album), False (logic), False: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. False: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. false: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. false: Rhymezone
  19. False, false: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. false: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. False: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. false: Free Dictionary
  23. false: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. false: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. false: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. False (logic), false: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FALSE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. False (logic), false: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. False (logic), false: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. false: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. False: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. false, false, false: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. false: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See falsely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
adjective:  Based on factually incorrect premises.
adjective:  Spurious, artificial.
adjective:  (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
adjective:  Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
adjective:  Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
adjective:  Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
adjective:  Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
adjective:  Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.
adjective:  (music) Out of tune.
verb:  (electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
verb:  (obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
verb:  (obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.
verb:  (obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.
adverb:  In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.
noun:  One of two options on a true-or-false test, that not representing true.
adjective:  (electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 0.

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