untrue
/ʌnˈtɹuː/
untrue adjective: false; not true.
Adjective
untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)
- False; not true.
- 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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11
- Synonyms:
- false, inaccurate, incorrect, unveridical, wrong
- Antonyms:
- true
- Not faithful or loyal.
- Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river1953, Arthur Hamilton, “Cry Me a River”
- Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue1971, “Let's Stay Together”, performed by Al Green
- Synonyms:
- false, perfidious, unfaithful, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced
- Antonyms:
- faithful
untrue meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
untrue in Tamil
- உண்மையற்ற, பொய்யான
untrue in Urdu
- untrue
- متھیا mithyā
untrue in Bengali
- untrue, false
- মিথ্যা mittha, অযথা ojotha
untrue in Malayalam
- fabricated, false, untruthful
- അസത്യ, സത്യമല്ലാത്ത, അസംഗത, വാസ്തവല്ലാത്ത, കൂട, വസ്തുതാവിരുദ്ധമായ
- disloyal, unfaithful, faithless
- വിശ്വസ്തതയില്ലാത്ത, സ്വാമിഭക്തിയില്ലാത്ത, കൂറില്ലാത്ത, വിശ്വാസമില്ലാത്ത, ആത്മാർത്ഥതയില്ലാത്ത, കപടമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- untrue in Kannada
- ಅತಥ್ಯ
- untrue in Punjabi
- غلط ġalat̤
- untrue in Sanskrit
- असत्य asatya
Examples of untrue in a sentence
- 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...
- Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue2019, “The Night You Didn't Come”, in Becoming Peter Ivers, performed by Peter Ivers:
Synonyms of untrue
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- doublehearted
- faithless
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judaslike
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- Punic
- ratlike
- recreant
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treacherous
- treachersome
- unleal
- unloyal
- unsteadfast
- viperish
- viperous
Antonyms
Forms of untrue
| comparative | more untrue |
|---|---|
| superlative | most untrue |
| alternative form (obsolete) | untrew |
Origin of untrue
From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.
Words formed from untrue
Words that rhyme with untrue
Questions about untrue
- What does untrue mean?
- Untrue means false; not true.
- What is untrue in Tamil?
- Untrue in Tamil is உண்மையற்ற, பொய்யான. See Untrue meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use untrue in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is untrue?
- Untrue is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce untrue?
- Untrue is pronounced /ʌnˈtɹuː/.
Words near untrue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: untrue (page history and authors); untrue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); متھیا (Urdu) (page history and authors); অযথা (Bengali) (page history and authors); untrue (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); untrue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غلط (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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