untrue
/ʌnˈtruː
/adjective
1Not in accordance with fact or reality; false or incorrect: these suggestions are totally untrue a malicious and untrue story...
- Since the hints and allegations presented thus far are unsupported and in fact untrue, it would be hard indeed to determine their impacts on operations.
- Well, I know for a fact that this is untrue: the old girl merely sent over an old wig and a pair of inflatable waterwings and demanded that all opera glasses were removed from the auditorium.
- A fact being irrelevant is not the same thing as a fact being untrue.
Synonyms
false, untruthful, fabricated, made up, invented, concocted, trumped up;
erroneous, in error, wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact;
flawed, specious, fallacious, unsound, unfounded, misguided, distorted, out, misleading;
fictitious, fabulous, mythical, mythological
humorous economical with the truth
2Not faithful or loyal: a despotic sheik can be untrue to his vast seraglio...
- ‘I believe in music’ is her motto and she has never been untrue to it.
- The screenwriter should give the film its own coherent and persuasive narrative, with an approach that discards the issue of being true or untrue to the original.
- Hypocrisy, from the Ancient Greek word hypocrites - actor - is the condition of somebody who is untrue to their stated ideals.
Synonyms
unfaithful, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, treacherous, traitorous, perfidious, deceitful, deceiving, untrustworthy, duplicitous, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, insincere, unreliable, undependable, inconstant;
adulterous
informal two-timing
3Incorrectly positioned or balanced; not upright or level.Our adjustable frame systems allow for untrue walls and our kits are delivered fully assembled.
Derivatives
untruly
- It would be a breach of duty, actionable if followed by damage, to tell her untruly that her child had been burnt.
- It has been brought to our attention that this was untruly credited and that Joe actually wrote this story.
- At times, it has been made too easy for autocrats to untruly claim that democracy movements are agents of foreign forces.
Origin
Old English untrēowe 'unfaithful' (see un-1, true).