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A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
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The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
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An act of falling down.
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To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(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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Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun downfall
is a precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.As a verb downfall
is to fall down; deteriorate; decline.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.downfall
English
Noun
(en noun)- Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
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- It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Synonyms
* (precipitous decline in fortune) fall * (death or rapid deterioration) doomDerived terms
*Verb
- [...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall " or "fall down."
- Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
- It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.
- [...] As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell — Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?
Derived terms
* down-fallen, downfallenAnagrams
*false
English
Adjective
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