[syn: false, untrue]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Untrue \Un*true\, adv.
Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Untrue \Un*true"\, a.
1. Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is
untrue.
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2. Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
untrue
adj 1: not according with the facts; "unfortunately the
statement was simply untrue"
2: not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest
opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
3: not accurately fitted; not level; "the frame was out of
true"; "off-level floors and untrue doors and windows" [syn:
out of true, untrue]
4: (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or
affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove
untrue" [syn: false, untrue]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "untrue":
aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss,
askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, capricious,
contrary to fact, corrupt, deceitful, deceptive, defective,
delusive, derelict, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious,
disaffected, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, disregardful,
distorted, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, faithless,
fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, fickle, flawed, forsworn,
heretical, heterodox, hypocritical, illogical, illusory, imperfect,
imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inattentive, inconstant,
incorrect, inexact, inobservant, insincere, misleading, mistaken,
negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant,
not right, not true, not true to, of bad faith, off, off the track,
out, peccant, perfidious, perjured, perverse, perverted, recreant,
self-contradictory, specious, straying, substandard, traitorous,
treacherous, trothless, truthless, two-faced, uncompliant,
unconforming, undependable, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded,
unloyal, unobservant, unorthodox, unprecise, unproved, unreliable,
unsound, unsteadfast, untrustworthy, wide, wrong