falsely

1. 1.

   in an insincerely false manner

   “a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened”
2. 2.

   in an incorrect manner

   “to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely”

   Synonymsincorrectly

Questions about falsely

What does falsely mean?

falsely means "in an insincerely false manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in falsely?

falsely has 2 syllables: fal-sely. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfɔlsli/.

What is another word for falsely?

Close synonyms include incorrectly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is falsely a common word?

falsely is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.