Pissant vs False - What's the difference?
pissant | false |
(dated, outside, dialects) An ant.
(pejorative) An insignificant person.
(pejorative) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
(pejorative) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
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 pissant and false
is that pissant is insignificant or unimportant while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun pissant
is (dated|outside|dialects) an ant.pissant
English
Noun
(en noun)- Their super is a real pissant about break times.
Quotations
* 2005 January 31, The New Yorker , 24: *: “Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants .’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.” * 1993 , PJ O'Rourke, Democracy in its diapers'' in ''Give war a chance (Picador): *: It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.Anagrams
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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.}}