[fɒls], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- not according with truth or fact; incorrect
(e.g: he was feeding false information to his customers)

- made to imitate something in order to deceive
(e.g: the trunk had a false bottom)

- illusory; not actually so
(e.g: sunscreens give users a false sense of security)

- disloyal; unfaithful
(e.g: a false lover)


Phrases:
- false position

Origin:
Old English fals ‘fraud, deceit’, from Latin falsum ‘fraud’, neuter past participle of fallere ‘deceive’; reinforced or re-formed in Middle English from Old French fals, faus ‘false’