Babbitt vs False - What's the difference?
babbitt | false |
A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals
* 1930 The Literary digest , Volume 105, Funk and Wagnalls, p21
* 2002 Tamkang review , Volume 33, Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, p158
* 2003 William Hyland, George Gershwin: a new biography, Greenwood Publishing Group, p116
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun babbitt
is a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.babbitt
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
Named for American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862)Etymology 2
Named after the title character in Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel, Babbit.'' Also popularised by the George and Ira Gershwin song "The Babbitt and the Bromide," featured first in the 1927 musical "Funny Face" and later in the film ''Ziegfeld Follies (1945).Alternative forms
BabbittNoun
(en noun)- One speaks of a babbitt' habit, a '''babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in ''Babbitt , it demurred, but it also admired.
- [...] a "babbitt " is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.
- Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?
References
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English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}