false

adjective

• 1not according with truth or fact; incorrect:he was feeding false information to his customers the allegations were false
• not according with rules or law:false imprisonment

• 2made to imitate something in order to deceive:the trunk had a false bottom a false passport
• artificial:false eyelashes
• not sincere:a horribly false smile

• 3illusory; not actually so:sunscreens give users a false sense of security
• [attributive] used in names of plants, animals, and gems that superficially resemble the thing properly so called, e.g. false oat.

• 4disloyal; unfaithful:a false lover