Psychophant vs False - What's the difference?
psychophant | false |
(jocular) A sycophant, especially one with psychological problems.
* 1911 , The Word , Volume 13, Theosophical Publishing Co., page 178:
* 2002 , University Microfilms, University Microfilms International, Dissertation abstracts international: The sciences and engineering , University Microfilms, page unknown:
* 2008 , G. Ramachandhra Reddy, The challenges of governance in Indian democracy , APH Publishing, page 178:
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 a noun psychophant
is (jocular) a sycophant, especially one with psychological problems.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.psychophant
English
Noun
(en noun)- Socrates was not a sophist nor a psychophant .
- Adolescents play out these interim roles of clown, miniature adult, social psychophant , bully, etc., to compensate for the loss of power that accompanies their perceived or real losses.
- It has destroyed the right ethos in administrative culture and brought to the fore psychophant and the dishonest...
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.}}