untruth
/ʌnˈtɹuːθ/
untruth noun: a lie or falsehood.
Noun
untruth (countable and uncountable, plural untruths)
- A lie or falsehood.
- Herald The prince was swept from the sight of the Achaean host—himself, and his ship likewise. ’Tis no untruth I tell.1926, Herbert Weir Smyth, “Agamemnon”, in Aeschylus, with an English translation, volume II, page 55
- He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7
- The condition of being false; truthlessness.
untruth meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
untruth in Tamil
- அசத்தியம், அபத்தம், பொய்யானது, உண்மையற்றது, மெய்யல்லாதது, உண்மைக்குப் புறம்பானது
untruth in Urdu
- untruth
- متھیا mithyā
untruth in Telugu
- lie or falsehood
- అసత్యము asatyamu
untruth in Malayalam
- falsehood, lie, fib
- അസത്യം, കളവ്, അതത്ഥ്യം, അസത്ത, അനൃതം, സത്യമല്ലാത്തത്
- falseness, falsity, falsehood
- നുണ, കള്ളത്തരം, ചോരത, തെറ്റ്, അബദ്ധം, കൃത്രിമത്വം
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- untruth in Kannada
- ಅಸತ್ಯ, ಸುಳ್ಳು, ಸಟೆ, ಮಿಥ್ಯೆ
- untruth in Sanskrit
- मिथ्या mithyā, असत्य asatya
Synonyms of untruth
Forms of untruth
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Origin of untruth
Inherited from Middle English untreuth, from Old English untrēowþ and unġetrēowþ, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwiþu and *ungatriuwiþu, equivalent to un- + truth. Cognate with Old High German ungitriuwida.
Words formed from untruth
Words that rhyme with untruth
Questions about untruth
- What does untruth mean?
- Untruth means a lie or falsehood.
- What is untruth in Tamil?
- Untruth in Tamil is அசத்தியம், அபத்தம், பொய்யானது. See Untruth meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is untruth?
- Untruth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce untruth?
- Untruth is pronounced /ʌnˈtɹuːθ/.
- What is the plural of untruth?
- The plural of untruth is untruths.
Words near untruth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: untruth (page history and authors); untruth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); متھیا (Urdu) (page history and authors); untruth (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); untruth (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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