Dictionary Definition
falsehood
Noun
2 the act of rendering something false as by
fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or
counterfeiting [syn: falsification]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'fals hUd/
Noun
Translations
state of being false
- Finnish: valheellisuus
false statement
- Finnish: vale
trait of a person
- Finnish: epärehellisyys
Extensive Definition
False may also refer to:
See also
- Contradiction
- Falsity
- Lie
- Falsework, a temporary support
falsehood in Italian: Falso
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
blague,
canard, cock-and-bull
story, credibility gap, deceit, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, erroneousness, error, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale,
fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, farfetched story,
farrago, feigning, fib, fibbery, fibbing, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, fraud, ghost story, half-truth,
inveracity, legal
fiction, lie, little white
lie, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, misrepresentation,
misstatement,
mythomania, pious
fiction, pretense,
prevarication,
pseudology, sham, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale,
taradiddle,
trumped-up story, truthlessness, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white
lie, yarn