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untruthful

/ʌnˈtruːθf(ʊ)l/

untruthful adjective: not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.

Adjective

untruthful (comparative more untruthful, superlative most untruthful)

  1. Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
    • Cousin, good night; / And whatsoe’er be told of me henceforth, / A most untruthful annalist were he, / Who said I did not love my cousin Anna.1827, [Henry Taylor], act III, scene V, in Isaac Comnenus. A Play., London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 134
    • Upon principle it is his aim to exhibit integrity of dealing, honest and godly sincerity to all men; if he fail, it must be in degree, it cannot be in kind; for a false and untruthful mind can never rightly know God; the more we know of him, the more upright and ingenuous, and liberal, and kind...1832, chapter VI, in The Waning Church, London: […] James Nisbet, […], →OCLC, page 114
  2. Pertaining to falsehood; corrupt; dishonest.
    • But what was our astonishment when the “Seven Letters by Anglicanus” made their appearance amongst us, accompanied by the report that you—one of our brethren—was the author of that untruthful, bitter, and malignant publication!1828, Charles Thomson, Letter to the Rev. Henry Grey, on Certain Passages Contained in the Letters of Anglicanus, Edinburgh: […] William Whyte & Co. […] and sold by M[aurice] Ogle, and William...

untruthful meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

untruthful in Marathi

untruthful
खोटे khoṭe

untruthful in Urdu

جھوٹا, کاذب

untruthful in Malayalam

untrue, false, fabricated
അസത്യമായ, സത്യമല്ലാത്ത, സത്യവിരുദ്ധമായ, കൂട, കളവായ, അയഥാർത്ഥ
mendacious, lying, dishonest
നുണപറയുന്ന, അസത്യം പറയുന്ന, കള്ളം പറയുന്ന, കള്ളത്തരമുള്ള, പൊളിപറയുന്ന, നുണയനായ

untruthful in Kannada

ಅಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ, ಸುಳ್ಳು ಹೇಳುವ
More languagesFewer languages
untruthful in Tagalog
sinungaling
untruthful in Arabic
كَاذِب kāḏib

Antonyms of untruthful

Forms of untruthful

comparativemore untruthful
superlativemost untruthful

Origin of untruthful

From un- + truthful. Compare Middle English untreuthfull, untrowþeful, wntreuthtfull (“unbelieving, infidel”).

Words formed from untruthful

Questions about untruthful

What does untruthful mean?
Untruthful means not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
What is untruthful in Marathi?
Untruthful in Marathi is खोटे (khoṭe). See Untruthful meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is untruthful?
Untruthful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce untruthful?
Untruthful is pronounced /ʌnˈtruːθf(ʊ)l/.

Words near untruthful in the dictionary

  1. untrustworthy
  2. untrusty
  3. untruth
  4. untruther
  5. untruthers
  6. untruthful
  7. untruthfully
  8. untruthfulness
  9. untruthiness
  10. untruthlike
  11. untruths

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untruthful (page history and authors); खोटे (Marathi) (page history and authors); untruthful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); untruthful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); untruthful (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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