Faithful vs False - What's the difference?
faithful | false |
loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
having faith
reliable; worthy of trust
consistent with reality
engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner
The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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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 faithful and false
is that faithful is loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun faithful
is the practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.faithful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My dog is a very faithful dog.
- Some people are faithful to their god.
- My servant is very faithful .
- I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
- They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
Derived terms
* faithfully * faithfulnessSee also
* go to the wall for someone * stand by * trueNoun
(-)- The faithful pray five times a day.
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.}}