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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English untrewe, from Old English untrīewe, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwī, from Proto-Germanic *untriwwiz. Equivalent to un- + true.
Pronunciation
Adjective
untrue (comparative more untrue, superlative most untrue)
- False; not true.
- Synonyms: false, inaccurate, incorrect, unveridical, wrong; see also Thesaurus:false
- Antonym: true
She says that I stole her necklace, but that's completely untrue.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:"I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips."
- Not faithful or loyal.
- Synonyms: false, perfidious, unfaithful
- Antonym: faithful
1953, Arthur Hamilton (lyrics and music), “Cry Me a River”:Now you say you're sorry / For being so untrue / Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river
1971, “Let's Stay Together”, performed by Al Green:Let me be the one you come running to / I'll never be untrue
2019, “The Night You Didn't Come”, in Becoming Peter Ivers, performed by Peter Ivers:Tonight you didn't come / And my senses all were reeling / I had a certain scary feeling you'd been untrue
Derived terms
Collocations
nouns
- untrue statement
- untrue things
- untrue story
- untrue information
- untrue words
- untrue claims
- untrue accusations
- untrue rumors
- untrue allegations
- untrue picture
- untrue reports
- untrue man
adverbs
- completely untrue
- entirely untrue
- patently untrue
- absolutely untrue
- totally untrue
- so untrue
- quite untrue
- simply untrue
- obviously untrue
- clearly untrue
- manifestly untrue
Translations
false
- Bulgarian: грешен (bg) (grešen), неверен (bg) (neveren)
- Danish: usand
- Esperanto: malvera, nevera
- Georgian: არასწორი (arasc̣ori), არამართებული (aramartebuli), არამართალი (aramartali), არანამდვილი (aranamdvili), ცრუ (cru), ტყუილი (ka) (ṭq̇uili)
- German: unwahr (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ψευδής (pseudḗs)
- Icelandic: rangur (is), ósannur (is)
- Irish: ainfhíor
- Italian: falso (it)
- Latin: falsus
- Maori: tahupera, meho, hāwatewate, rūkahu, rūpahu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: usann
- Nynorsk: usann
- Old English: unsōþ, untrēowe
- Plautdietsch: onwoa, faulsch, ontru
- Portuguese: falso (pt)
- Sanskrit: असत्य (sa) (asatya)
- Spanish: falso (es), incorrecto (es), inexacto
- Swedish: osann (sv)
- Turkish: asılsız (tr)
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Further reading
- “untrue”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “untrue”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “untrue”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “untrue”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “untrue” (US) / “untrue” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.