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so much of the sympathy that the widow received was false and hypocritical, since it came from people who never liked her husband in the first place

Synonyms of false

affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural

Words Related to false

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied

Near Antonyms of false

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending

easy, effortless, smooth

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied

Antonyms of false

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced

5 marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value

false advertising that claimed that the vegetables were organically grown when they weren't

Synonyms of false

crooked, deceitful, defrauding, dishonest, double-dealing, fraudulent

Words Related to false

beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, duplicitous, fallacious, misleading, specious

spurious

Near Antonyms of false

legitimate, true, valid

Antonyms of false

aboveboard, honest, truthful

6 not true in one's allegiance to someone or something

false friends who deserted the prizefighter when all his money was gone

Synonyms of false

disloyal, faithless, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue

Words Related to false

irresponsible, trustless, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy

faltering, hesitant, vacillating, wavering

dubious, irresolute, uncertain

apathetic, dispassionate, uninterested

Near Antonyms of false

dependable, dutiful, reliable, responsible, solid, tried, tried-and-true, trustable, trustworthy, trusty

unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering

determined, intent, resolute

confirmed, dyed-in-the-wool, inveterate, sworn

ardent, avid, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, impassioned, passionate

Antonyms of false

constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line, faithful, fast, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true

7 tending or having power to deceive

it turned out that the con man had made false promises of marriage to a dozen women

Synonyms of false

beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, misleading, specious

Words Related to false

artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily

inaccurate, incorrect, wrong

bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling

ambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful

bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive [slang], phony (also phoney), sham, spurious

insidious, perfidious, treacherous

ambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasive

artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced

Near Antonyms of false

candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straight

clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating

revealing, revelatory

honest, trustworthy, truthful

Antonyms of false

aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward

Synonym Discussion of false

faithless, false, disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious mean untrue to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. faithless applies to any failure to keep a promise or pledge or any breach of allegiance or loyalty.