Muddy vs False - What's the difference?
muddy | false |
Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
* Burke
* Shakespeare
(euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
To get mud on (something).
To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.
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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 muddy and false
is that muddy is covered with or full of mud or wet soil while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb muddy
is to get mud on (something).muddy
English
Adjective
(er)- He slogged across the muddy field.
- Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
- The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the epic struggle.
- The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.
- cold hearts and muddy understandings
- dost think I am so muddy , so unsettled
Verb
- If you muddy your shoes don't wear them inside.
- The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
- As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy .
false
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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.}}