"untrue" meaning in English

See untrue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʌnˈtɹuː/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-untrue.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more untrue [comparative], most untrue [superlative]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|untrewe}} Middle English untrewe, {{inh|en|ang|untrīewe}} Old English untrīewe, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*untriuwī}} Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*untriwwiz}} Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz, {{prefix|en|un|true}} un- + true Head templates: {{en-adj}} untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)
  1. False; not true. Synonyms: false, inaccurate, incorrect, unveridical, wrong, false Translations (false): ψευδής (pseudḗs) (Ancient Greek), грешен (grešen) (Bulgarian), неверен (neveren) (Bulgarian), usand (Danish), malvera (Esperanto), nevera (Esperanto), არასწორი (arasc̣ori) (Georgian), არამართებული (aramartebuli) (Georgian), არამართალი (aramartali) (Georgian), არანამდვილი (aranamdvili) (Georgian), ცრუ (cru) (Georgian), ტყუილი (ṭq̇uili) (Georgian), unwahr (German), rangur (Icelandic), ósannur (Icelandic), ainfhíor (Irish), falso (Italian), falsus (Latin), tahupera (Maori), meho (Maori), hāwatewate (Maori), rūkahu (Maori), rūpahu (Maori), usann (Norwegian Bokmål), usann (Norwegian Nynorsk), unsōþ (Old English), untrēowe (Old English), onwoa (Plautdietsch), faulsch (Plautdietsch), ontru (Plautdietsch), falso (Portuguese), असत्य (asatya) (Sanskrit), falso (Spanish), incorrecto (Spanish), inexacto (Spanish), osann (Swedish), asılsız (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-untrue-en-adj-2UR5fUyo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 77 23 Disambiguation of 'false': 70 30
  2. Not faithful or loyal. Synonyms: false, perfidious, unfaithful Translations (not faithful or loyal): 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (untriggws) (Gothic)
    Sense id: en-untrue-en-adj-SgLPcxvp Disambiguation of 'not faithful or loyal': 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: artificial, falsehood, absurd, nonsense, fake, truth
Synonyms: untrew [obsolete], bastard [of plant species], counterfactual, erroneous, fallacious, false, fictitious, inaccurate, incorrect, invented, made up, nonfactual, nontrue, nontruthful, pseudo-, spurious, untrue, untruthful, unveracious, unveridical, wrong Hyponyms: concocted, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fabricated, falsified, faux, mendacious, misdirective, misleading, prevaricated, unfaithful Derived forms: untruism, untrue statement, untrue things, untrue story, untrue information, untrue words, untrue claims, untrue accusations, untrue rumors, untrue allegations, untrue picture, untrue reports, untrue man, completely untrue, entirely untrue, patently untrue, absolutely untrue, totally untrue, so untrue, quite untrue, simply untrue, obviously untrue, clearly untrue, manifestly untrue

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for untrue meaning in English (11.4kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "accurate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "correct"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "factual"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "right"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "true"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "truthful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "veracious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "veridical"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untruism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue statement"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue things"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue story"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue information"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue words"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue claims"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue accusations"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue rumors"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue allegations"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue picture"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue reports"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "untrue man"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "completely untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "entirely untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "patently untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "absolutely untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "totally untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "so untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "quite untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "simply untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "obviously untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clearly untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "manifestly untrue"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "untrewe"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English untrewe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "untrīewe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English untrīewe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*untriuwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*untriwwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + true",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more untrue",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most untrue",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "concocted"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "deceitful"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "deceptive"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "dishonest"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fabricated"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "falsified"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "faux"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "mendacious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "misdirective"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "misleading"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "prevaricated"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unfaithful"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "artificial"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "falsehood"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "absurd"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nonsense"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fake"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "truth"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "true"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with un-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11",
          "text": "I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 264",
          "text": "This statement is untrue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "False; not true."
      ],
      "id": "en-untrue-en-adj-2UR5fUyo",
      "links": [
        [
          "False",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "false"
        },
        {
          "word": "inaccurate"
        },
        {
          "word": "incorrect"
        },
        {
          "word": "unveridical"
        },
        {
          "word": "wrong"
        },
        {
          "word": "false"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "grešen",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "грешен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "neveren",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "неверен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "usand"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "malvera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "nevera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "arasc̣ori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "არასწორი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "aramartebuli",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "არამართებული"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "aramartali",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "არამართალი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "aranamdvili",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "არანამდვილი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "cru",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ცრუ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ṭq̇uili",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ტყუილი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "unwahr"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "pseudḗs",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ψευδής"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "rangur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ósannur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ainfhíor"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "falso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "falsus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "tahupera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "meho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "hāwatewate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "rūkahu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "rūpahu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "usann"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "usann"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "unsōþ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "untrēowe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "onwoa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "faulsch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "ontru"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "falso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "asatya",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "असत्य"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "falso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "incorrecto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "inexacto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "osann"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 30",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "false",
          "word": "asılsız"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "faithful"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953, Arthur Hamilton (lyrics and music), “Cry Me a River”",
          "text": "Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, “Let's Stay Together”, performed by Al Green",
          "text": "Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, “The Night You Didn't Come”, in Becoming Peter Ivers, performed by Peter Ivers",
          "text": "Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not faithful or loyal."
      ],
      "id": "en-untrue-en-adj-SgLPcxvp",
      "links": [
        [
          "faithful",
          "faithful"
        ],
        [
          "loyal",
          "loyal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "false"
        },
        {
          "word": "perfidious"
        },
        {
          "word": "unfaithful"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "13 87",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "untriggws",
          "sense": "not faithful or loyal",
          "word": "𐌿𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈtɹuː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-untrue.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "untrew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "tags": [
        "of plant species"
      ],
      "word": "bastard"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "counterfactual"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "erroneous"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fallacious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "false"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fictitious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "inaccurate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "incorrect"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "invented"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "made up"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nonfactual"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nontrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nontruthful"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "pseudo-"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "spurious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "untrue"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "untruthful"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unveracious"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unveridical"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "wrong"
    }
  ],
  "word": "untrue"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "accurate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "correct"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "factual"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "right"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "true"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "truthful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "veracious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "veridical"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms prefixed with un-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/uː",
    "Rhymes:English/uː/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "untruism"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue statement"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue things"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue story"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue information"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue words"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue claims"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue accusations"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue rumors"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue allegations"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue picture"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue reports"
    },
    {
      "word": "untrue man"
    },
    {
      "word": "completely untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "entirely untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "patently untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "absolutely untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "totally untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "so untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "quite untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "simply untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "obviously untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "clearly untrue"
    },
    {
      "word": "manifestly untrue"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "untrewe"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English untrewe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "untrīewe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English untrīewe",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*untriuwī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*untriwwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + true",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more untrue",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most untrue",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "concocted"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "deceitful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "deceptive"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "dishonest"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fabricated"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "falsified"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "faux"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "mendacious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "misdirective"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "misleading"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "prevaricated"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unfaithful"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "artificial"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "falsehood"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "absurd"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nonsense"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fake"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "truth"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "true"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11",
          "text": "I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →OCLC, →OL, page 264",
          "text": "This statement is untrue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "False; not true."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "False",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "false"
        },
        {
          "word": "inaccurate"
        },
        {
          "word": "incorrect"
        },
        {
          "word": "unveridical"
        },
        {
          "word": "wrong"
        },
        {
          "word": "false"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "faithful"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953, Arthur Hamilton (lyrics and music), “Cry Me a River”",
          "text": "Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, “Let's Stay Together”, performed by Al Green",
          "text": "Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, “The Night You Didn't Come”, in Becoming Peter Ivers, performed by Peter Ivers",
          "text": "Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not faithful or loyal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "faithful",
          "faithful"
        ],
        [
          "loyal",
          "loyal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "false"
        },
        {
          "word": "perfidious"
        },
        {
          "word": "unfaithful"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈtɹuː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-untrue.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-untrue.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "untrew"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "tags": [
        "of plant species"
      ],
      "word": "bastard"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "counterfactual"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "erroneous"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fallacious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "false"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "fictitious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "inaccurate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "incorrect"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "invented"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "made up"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nonfactual"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nontrue"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "nontruthful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "pseudo-"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "spurious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "untrue"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "untruthful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unveracious"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "unveridical"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:untrue",
      "word": "wrong"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "grešen",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "грешен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neveren",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "неверен"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "usand"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "malvera"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "nevera"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "arasc̣ori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "არასწორი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aramartebuli",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "არამართებული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aramartali",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "არამართალი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aranamdvili",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "არანამდვილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "cru",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ცრუ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṭq̇uili",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ტყუილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "unwahr"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pseudḗs",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ψευδής"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "rangur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ósannur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ainfhíor"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "falsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "tahupera"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "meho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "hāwatewate"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "rūkahu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "rūpahu"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "usann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "usann"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "unsōþ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "untrēowe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "onwoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "faulsch"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "ontru"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "asatya",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "असत्य"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "falso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "incorrecto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "inexacto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "osann"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "false",
      "word": "asılsız"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "untriggws",
      "sense": "not faithful or loyal",
      "word": "𐌿𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃"
    }
  ],
  "word": "untrue"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.