See the original description in base::isFALSE.
isFALSE(x)# get function from namespace instead of possibly getting
# implementation shipped with recent R versions:
bp_isFALSE = getFromNamespace("isFALSE", "backports")
bp_isFALSE(FALSE)
#> [1] TRUE
bp_isFALSE(iris)
#> [1] FALSE