Dictionary

untrue en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ʌnˈtɹuː/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-Indo-European *drewH-der. Proto-Germanic *triwwiz Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī Old English untrīewe Middle English untrewe English untrue From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.

Meanings

1. False; not true.
   • This statement is untrue. 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 264:
   • The service aggressively maintained its position until I produced evidence proving it was untrue - including a recording of one of the calls with a senior MI5 officer. 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 2025:
   • She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.
   • "I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips." 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:
2. Not faithful or loyal.
   • Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue 2019, “The Night You Didn't Come”, in Becoming Peter Ivers, performed by Peter Ivers:
   • Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river 1953, Arthur Hamilton, “Cry Me a River”:
   • Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue 1971, “Let's Stay Together”, performed by Al Green:

Forms

Antonyms

veracious · faithful · veridical · right · accurate · correct · true · true · factual · truthful

Deriveds

untrueness · untruism · untruely · untruly

Hyponyms

mendacious · deceitful · dishonest · misleading · prevaricated · deceptive · concocted · faux · misdirective · fabricated · falsified · unfaithful

Relateds

falsehood · fake · nonsense · artificial · absurd · truth

Synonyms

swike · insidious · disloyal · invented · traitorsome · disleal · doublehearted · double-dealing · incorrect · unfaithful · perfidious · reptitious · booky · made up · recreant · off · unveridical · pseudo- · untruthful · proditorious · false · proditory · incorrect · hollow-hearted · reptilian · spurious · traitorly · treacherous · bastard · counterfeit · guileful · ratlike · false-hearted · inaccurate · unleal · wrong · double-crossing · unloyal · viperish · faithless · trothless · traitorlike · nonfaithful · wrong · false · unsteadfast · guiled · untrue · unveridical · double-faced · traitorish · infidelitous · perfidious · double-hearted · nontrue · unveracious · counterfactual · renegade · false · viperous · Punic · unfaithful · nontruthful · illoyal · Judasly · nonfactual · dastardly · treachersome · falseheart · inaccurate · false · fictitious · untrue · traitorous · fallacious · erroneous · Judaslike

Translations (45)

it falso (false) · es fatulo (false) · is rangur (false) · pdt ontru (false) · mi tahupera (false) · ang unsōþ (false) · ka ტყუილი (false) · mi meho (false) · fi uskoton (not faithful or loyal) · ga ainfhíor (false) · mi rūpahu (false) · mi hāwatewate (false) · got 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (not faithful or loyal) · is ósannur (false) · bg неверен (false) · nn usann (false) · ka არამართებული (false) · mi rūkahu (false) · bg грешен (false) · nb usann (false) · tr asılsız (false) · sv osann (false) · ka არამართალი (false) · fi paikkaansapitämätön (false) · da usand (false) · ka არასწორი (false) · nl ontrouw (not faithful or loyal) · nl onwaar (false) · pdt faulsch (false) · sa असत्य (false) · fi totuudenvastainen (false) · ang untrēowe (false) · pt falso (false) · grc ψευδής (false) · pdt onwoa (false) · eo malvera (false) · ota یالان (false) · es falso (false) · ka არანამდვილი (false) · es inexacto (false) · de unwahr (false) · eo nevera (false) · es incorrecto (false) · ka ცრუ (false) · la falsus (false)