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rung false

rung false is the past participle of ring false.

Meaning of ring false

Verb

ring false (third-person singular simple present rings false, present participle ringing false, simple past rang false, past participle rung false)

  1. (idiomatic) To seem to be incorrect, or implausible.
    • His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me.
    Synonyms:
    ring hollow
    Antonyms:
    ring true

Questions about rung false

What is rung false the past participle of?
Rung false is the past participle of ring false.

Words near rung false in the dictionary

  1. rung
  2. rung a bell
  3. rung around
  4. rung back
  5. rung down the curtain
  6. rung false
  7. rung hollow
  8. rung in
  9. rung off
  10. rung off the hook
  11. rung one's bell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rung false (page history and authors); ring false (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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