Ruddy vs False - What's the difference?
ruddy | false |
Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
(British, slang) A mild intensifier.
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(informal) ruddy duck
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To make reddish in colour.
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 ruddy and false
is that ruddy is reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun ruddy
is (informal) ruddy duck.As a verb ruddy
is to make reddish in colour.ruddy
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See alsoSee also
*Noun
(ruddies)citation
Verb
- The sunset ruddied our faces.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
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.}}