untrue
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2.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtru/
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falso
- His accusations were untrue, as the evidence clearly showed otherwise.
- untrue statements
- claims are untrue
- patently untrue
And teaching our children untrue things is not OK.
- And teaching our children untrue things is not OK.
- It's not that the bad stories are untrue and the good stories aren't.
- That is colossally untrue, unfair, and unhelpful.
- They're saying things that are, to my mind, fantastical and untrue, but they are saying those things.
- Also, if everything Bolton said is nasty and untrue, how can it also be classified?
- And this was untrue, according to the complaint.
- Now, am I saying that an entire category of medicine is both untrue and morally indefensible?
- You're being fed information, visual information, that's actually inaccurate and untrue and perhaps random.
- And it's just the most awful, awful dream that I wish were untrue.
- And it was sold on completely untrue basis of, you know, WMDS.
- It's not just that they're untrue, it's that they don't, they don't move us.
Examples
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Naturally, you will have some questions, but I asked you here to rebut some absolutely untrue reports in the press.
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And this was untrue, according to the complaint.
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You know, it's not untrue that we are all the children of of God.
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Well, we feel this to be an untrue statement.
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The more untrue the story, the more dramatic the impact.
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Now, that forecast has since turned out to be untrue and wrong.
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It's effectively untrue as far as I'm concerned.
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Well, as Rachel reports, it turns out to be untrue, made up by the girls' principal.
Blog text (5) -
It's not that the bad stories are untrue and the good stories aren't.
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Well, it's entirely untrue and not one of these women exists, except in his horrible imagination.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not correct according to the facts or the answer
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1.4
A thing that has errors or does not follow rules
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4.8
Not honest and likely to tell lies
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6.1
Not based on facts and therefore not true
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untrue is made of the prefix un- 'not' and true, a word that long ago meant 'faithful' and came to mean 'correct' or 'real'. So untrue simply means 'not correct' or 'not in agreement with the facts'.