Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept False
More specialized WordNet synsets
- incorrectness, wrongness
- the quality of not conforming to fact or truth
- erroneousness, error
- inadvertent incorrectness
- deviation
- the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances
- fallacy, false belief
- a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
- misconception
- an incorrect conception
- error, erroneous belief
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- self-deception, self-deceit
- a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it
- mistake, misunderstanding, misapprehension
- an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"
- illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy
- something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- wishful thinking
- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true
- will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus
- an illusion that misleads
- delusion
- a mistaken opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"
- illusion, semblance
- an erroneous mental representation
- phantom limb
- the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated
- paradox
- (in logic) a self-contradiction; "I always lie"
- lie, prevarication
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle
- a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
- fabrication, fiction, fable
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- jactitation
- a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
- whopper
- a gross untruth
- canard
- a deliberately misleading fabrication
- misrepresentation, deceit, deception
- a misleading falsehood
- misstatement
- a statement that contains a mistake
- error, mistake
- part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
- spuriousness
- state of lacking genuineness
- inaccurate
- not accurate; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate"
- faulty
- characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"
- unfaithful
- not trustworthy; "an unfaithful reproduction"
- wide, wide of the mark
- not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
- unacknowledged
- not recognized or admitted
- counterfactual, contrary to fact
- going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
- incorrect, wrong
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
- erroneous, inaccurate
- containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"
- false, mistaken
- arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
- fallacious
- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
- wrong
- based on or acting or judging in error; "it is wrong to think that way"
- wrongheaded
- obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded policy"
- dishonest
- lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
- supposed(a)
- mistakenly believed; "the supposed existence of ghosts"
- unreal
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
- fanciful, imaginary, imagined, notional
- not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
- fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological
- based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"
- fantastic, fantastical
- existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- hallucinatory
- partaking of hallucination; "fleeing in terror from hallucinatory wolves"; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford
- illusional, illusionary
- marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects"
- illusive, illusory
- based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"
- unreal
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"
- fantastic
- extravagantly fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance"
- delusive, false
- inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
- specious
- plausible but false; "a specious claim"
- mendacious
- intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"
- trumped-up(a)
- concocted with intent to deceive; "trumped-up charges"
- untrue, wrong
- not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"; "the facts as reported were wrong"
- mistakenly, erroneously
- in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"
- wrongheadedly
- in a wrongheaded manner
- incorrectly, wrongly, wrong
- in an incorrect manner; "she guessed wrong"
- inaccurately
- in an inaccurate manner; "this student works rather inaccurately and sloppily"
- faultily
- in an inaccurate manner; "these statements were faultily attributed to me"
- mendaciously, untruthfully
- in a mendacious and untruthful manner; "I told him, quite untruthfully, that I had just returned from leave"
- speciously
- in a specious manner
- spuriously
- in a false and spurious manner; "the lawyer argued spuriously that his client knew nothing of the burglary"
- untruly
- in a untrue manner; "he silenced the whisperings which connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation from his wife"