Utmost vs False - What's the difference?
utmost | false |
Situated at the most distant limit; farthest
* Evelyn
* Herbert
The most extreme; ultimate; greatest
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
Maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
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 utmost and false
is that utmost is situated at the most distant limit; farthest while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun utmost
is maximum; greatest possible amount or quantity.utmost
English
Adjective
(-)- We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.
- Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.
- He shall answerto his utmost peril.
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- Indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
Noun
(-)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost . She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
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.}}
