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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, cheating, counterfactual, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, dissembling, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, forsworn, hollow, imprecise, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, out of line, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, unsound, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong |
| Antonyms: | faithful, honest, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disloyal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
| Synonyms: | alienated, apostate, cheating, disaffected, double-crossing, estranged, faithless, false, perfidious, recreant, seditious, snaky, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, two-timing, unloyal, unpatriotic, untrue, untrustworthy, wormlike |
| Antonyms: | faithful, loyal, true, trustworthy |
| Main Entry: | erroneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, incorrect |
| Synonyms: | all off, all wet, amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off, specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, way off, wrong number |
| Antonyms: | correct, right, true, valid |
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, changeful, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-crossing, double-dealing, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced, two-timing, unbelieving, unconverted, unfaithful, unloyal, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
| Main Entry: | fallacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, wrong |
| Synonyms: | beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, spurious, unfounded, ungrounded, unreal, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound, untrue, way off |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | correct, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, made up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceitful, deceiving, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, misrepresentative, mistaken, off the mark, phony, sham, sophistical, specious, spurious, trumped up, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, substantiated, true, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fickle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillating, blowing hot and cold |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, coquettish, double-crossing, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, lubricious, mercurial, mutable, quicksilver, sneaking, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inaccurate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erroneous |
| Synonyms: | all wet, careless, counterfactual, defective, discrepant, doesn't wash, fallacious, false, faulty, imprecise, in error, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, off, off base, out*, specious, unfaithful, unreliable, unsound, untrue, way-off, wide*, wild*, wrong |
| Antonyms: | accurate, correct, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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