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untrue adjective [ ʌnˈtruː ]

• not in accordance with fact or reality; false or incorrect.
• "these suggestions are totally untrue"
Similar: false, untruthful, fabricated, made up, invented, concocted, trumped up, erroneous, in error, wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact, flawed, specious, fallacious, unsound, unfounded, misguided, distorted, out, misleading, fictitious, fabulous, mythical, mythological, economical with the truth,
Opposite: true, correct,
• not faithful or loyal.
• "a despotic sheik can be untrue to his vast seraglio"
Similar: unfaithful, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, treacherous, traitorous, perfidious, deceitful, deceiving, untrustworthy, duplicitous, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, insincere, unreliable, undependable, inconstant, adulterous, two-timing,
Opposite: true, faithful,
• incorrectly positioned or balanced; not upright or level.
Origin: Old English untrēowe ‘unfaithful’ (see un-1, true).


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