Clumsy vs False - What's the difference?
clumsy | false |
awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous
Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
A person.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, 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 adjectives the difference between clumsy and false
is that clumsy is awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun clumsy
is a person.clumsy
English
Adjective
(er)- He's very clumsy . I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.
- It is a clumsy solution, but it might work for now.
- What a clumsy joke...
Noun
(clumsies)Synonyms
* butterfingers * klutzSee also
* clumsiesAnagrams
* *false
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.}}
