untrue

adj
/ʌnˈtɹuː/

Etymology

From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.

  1. inherited from *untriwwiz
  2. inherited from *untriuwī
  3. inherited from untrīewe
  4. inherited from untrewe

Definitions

  1. False

    False; not true.

    • She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.
    • "I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips."
    • This statement is untrue.
  2. Not faithful or loyal.

    • Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river
    • Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue
    • Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue

The neighborhood

Derived

untruism

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at untrue. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at untrue. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at untrue

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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