Untrue

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Untrue \Un*true"\, a.
     1. Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is
        untrue.
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     2. Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal. --Chaucer.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Untrue \Un*true\, adv.
     Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  untrue
       adj 1: not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement
              was simply untrue"; "the facts as reported were wrong"
              [syn: {wrong}]
       2: not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his
          highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
       3: not accurately fitted; not level; "the frame was out of
          true"; "off-level floors and untrue doors and windows"
          [syn: {out of true}]
       4: (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or
          affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers
          prove untrue" [syn: {false}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "untrue":
     aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss,
     askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, capricious,
     contrary to fact, corrupt, deceitful, deceptive, defective,
     delusive, derelict, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious,
     disaffected, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, disregardful,
     distorted, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, faithless,
     fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, fickle, flawed, forsworn,
     heretical, heterodox, hypocritical, illogical, illusory, imperfect,
     imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inattentive, inconstant,
     incorrect, inexact, inobservant, insincere, misleading, mistaken,
     negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant,
     not right, not true, not true to, of bad faith, off, off the track,
     out, peccant, perfidious, perjured, perverse, perverted, recreant,
     self-contradictory, specious, straying, substandard, traitorous,
     treacherous, trothless, truthless, two-faced, uncompliant,
     unconforming, undependable, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded,
     unloyal, unobservant, unorthodox, unprecise, unproved, unreliable,
     unsound, unsteadfast, untrustworthy, wide, wrong