Sai, nhầm

a false idea

ý kiến sai

a false note

(âm nhạc) nốt sai

false imprisonment

sự bắt giam trái pháp luật

Không thật, giả

a false mirror

gương không thật

a false coin

tiền giả

false hair

tóc giả

Dối trá, lừa dối, phản trắc; giả dối

Dối, lừa

to play someone false

lừa ai, phản ai

false alarm

báo động giả; báo động lừa

false card

quân bài đánh lừa đối phương

false position

thế trái cựa

on (under) false pretences

bằng cách lừa đảo

to strike a false note

làm điều sai trái

under false colors

với vẻ vờ vịt

a false move

hành động ngu xuẩn

to make a false start

xuất phát mà không đợi lệnh

Khởi sự mà không gặp may

Adj.

Untrue, unfactual, untruthful, wrong, amiss, mistaken,erroneous, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, faulty,flawed, invalid, unsound, unreal, imaginary, fictitious,spurious: The explorers gave a completely false picture of thelocal inhabitants.

Untrue, untruthful, lying, misleading,fallacious, fabricated, made-up, concocted, mendacious,untrustworthy, fraudulent, meretricious, deceptive, deceitful,treacherous, Colloq phoney or US also phony: The testimony ofthis witness is completely false.

Counterfeit, imitation,simulated, sham, forged, fraudulent, fake, artificial,synthetic, manufactured, unnatural, spurious, bogus, ersatz,factitious, mock, pseudo, Colloq phoney or US also phony: Yourfalse teeth look almost real.

Sham, feigned, affected,insincere, faked, manufactured, counterfeit(ed): Don't shed anyfalse tears over me when I'm gone.

Illogical, fallacious,unsound, invalid, flawed, faulty: That conclusion could comeonly from false reasoning.

Adj. & adv.

Adj.

Not according with fact; wrong, incorrect(a false idea).

A spurious, sham, artificial (false gods;false teeth; false modesty). b acting as such; appearing to besuch, esp. deceptively (a false lining).

Illusory; notactually so (a false economy).

Improperly so called (falseacacia).

Deceptive.

(foll. by to) deceitful, treacherous,or unfaithful.

Illegal (false imprisonment).

Adv. in afalse manner (esp. play false).

False acacia see ACACIA.false alarm an alarm given needlessly. false bedding Geol. =CROSS-BEDDING. false colours deceitful pretence. false dawn atransient light in the east before dawn. false gharial seeGHARIAL. false pretences misrepresentations made with intent todeceive (esp. under false pretences). false rib = floating rib.false start 1 an invalid or disallowed start in a race.

Anunsuccessful attempt to begin something. false step a slip; amistake. false topaz = CITRINE.

Falsely adv. falseness n.falsity n. (pl. -ies). [OE fals and OF fals, faus f. L falsuspast part. of fallere deceive]