False vs. Recreant — What's the Difference?

Contrary to fact or truth

Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause

Deliberately untrue

(Archaic) Craven or cowardly.

Arising from mistaken ideas

A faithless or disloyal person.

Intentionally deceptive

(Archaic) A coward.

Not keeping faith; treacherous

Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.

Not genuine or real

Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Erected temporarily, as for support during construction.

Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Resembling but not accurately or properly designated as such

Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

(Music) Of incorrect pitch.

Apostate; false; unfaithful.

Unwise; imprudent

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.

(Computers) Indicating one of two possible values taken by a variable in Boolean logic or a binary device.

An abject coward

In a treacherous or faithless manner

A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Having deserted a cause or principle;

Based on factually incorrect premises.

Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;

Spurious, artificial.

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Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

Used in the vernacular name of a species (or group of species) together with the name of another species to which it is similar in appearance.

(music) Out of tune.

To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.

(obsolete) To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).

(obsolete) To counterfeit, to forge.

(obsolete) To make false, to corrupt from something true or real.

In a dishonest and disloyal way; falsely.

One of two options on a true-or-false test.

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.

Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

Not in tune.

Not truly; not honestly; falsely.

To report falsely; to falsify.

To betray; to falsify.

To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.

To feign; to pretend to make.

Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality;

Arising from error;

Erroneous and usually accidental;

Deliberately deceptive;

Inappropriate to reality or facts;

Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;

Designed to deceive;

Inaccurate in pitch;

Adopted in order to deceive;

(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful;

In a disloyal and faithless manner;