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.
- inherited from *untriwwiz✻
- inherited from *untriuwī✻
- inherited from untrīewe
- inherited from untrewe
Definitions
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.
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
- synonymbastard
- synonymcounterfactual
- synonymerroneous
- synonymfallacious
- synonymfalse
- synonymfictitious
- synonyminaccurate
- synonymincorrect
- synonyminvented
- synonymmade up
- synonymnonfactual
- synonymnontrue
- antonymaccurate
- antonymcorrect
- antonymfactual
- antonymright
- antonymtrue
- antonymtruthful
- antonymveracious
- antonymveridical
- neighborartificial
- neighborfalsehood
- neighborabsurd
- neighbornonsense
- neighborfake
- neighbortruth
- neighborconcocted
- neighbordeceitful
- neighbordeceptive
- neighbordishonest
- neighborfabricated
- neighborfalsified
Derived
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.
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA