Antonyms for untrue
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : uhn-troo |
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈtru |
Definition of untrue
Origin :- Old English untreowe "unfaithful" (of persons), from un- (1) "not" + true (adj.). Cf. Middle Dutch ongetrouwe, Middle Low German ungetruwe, Old High German ungitriuwi, Old Norse utryggr. Meaning "contrary to facts" is attested from c.1300.
- adj dishonest
- It would be untrue to say that Hester was not interested in the news.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- It is all untrue; actors were then, as now, only mummers without judgement.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- In these many years I have never been untrue to you in a single thought.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- But I will not believe you when you tell me what I know to be untrue.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- All of which Tony Cornish remembered later; for it was untrue.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Denial would be useless, and in denying, you would be untrue to yourself.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- His picture of the Doge's palace at Venice was quite clay-cold and untrue.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- But I should like to know, Socrates, whether you mean to say that all this is untrue?'
- Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
- But then I suppose you will say that what he creates is untrue.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Then one half of the saying is untrue, if the wicked are like one another?
- Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato
Synonyms for untrue
- apocryphal
- cheating
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
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