untrue

English

Alternative forms

• untrew (obsolete)

Etymology

un- +‎ true

Adjective

untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)

1. False; not true.

   Synonyms: false, inaccurate, incorrect, unveridical, wrong

   She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.

2. Not faithful or loyal.

   Synonyms: false, perfidious, unfaithful

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:false

Antonyms

• true
• faithful

Derived terms

• untruism

Translations

false

• Danish: usand
• Esperanto: malvera
• Georgian: არასწორი (arasc̣ori)
• German: unwahr (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψευδής (pseudḗs)

• Icelandic: rangur (is), ósannur (is)
• Irish: ainfhíor
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• Italian: falso (it)
• Latin: falsus
• Maori: tahupera, meho, hāwatewate, rūkahu, rūpahu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: usann

  Nynorsk: usann

• Spanish: falso (es), incorrecto (es), inexacto
• Swedish: osann (sv)