noun
Meaning 1
A lie or falsehood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
untruth
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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ŭn-trōōth′
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/ʌnˈtɹuːθ/
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rhymes with -uːθ
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N T R UW1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The condition of being false; truthlessness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a false statement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: falsehood, falsity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statement
Narrower terms: dodge, dodging, scheme, lie, prevarication, fabrication, fiction, fable, misrepresentation, deceit, deception, contradiction, contradiction in terms
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English untreuth, from Old English untrēowþ and unġetrēowþ, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwiþu and *ungatriuwiþu, equivalent to un- + truth. Cognate with Old High German ungitriuwida.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лъжа (lǎža) — lie or falsehood
- Bulgarian: неистина (neistina) — lie or falsehood
- Czech: nepravda — lie or falsehood
- Danish: usandhed — lie or falsehood
- French: mensonge — lie or falsehood
- French: menterie — lie or falsehood
- French: contrevérité — lie or falsehood
- German: Unwahrheit — lie or falsehood
- Ancient Greek: ψεῦδος (pseûdos) — lie or falsehood
- Hungarian: valótlanság — lie or falsehood
- Hungarian: hazugság — lie or falsehood
- Irish: ainfhírinne — lie or falsehood
- Irish: ainbhfíor — lie or falsehood
- Italian: bugia — lie or falsehood
- Italian: falsità — lie or falsehood
- Kikuyu: iheeni — lie or falsehood
- Norwegian Bokmål: usannhet — lie or falsehood
- Plautdietsch: Lieej — lie or falsehood
- Plautdietsch: Onwoarheit — lie or falsehood
- Portuguese: inverdade — lie or falsehood
- Russian: непра́вда (neprávda) — lie or falsehood
- Sanskrit: मिथ्या (mithyā) — lie or falsehood
- Sanskrit: असत्य (asatya) — lie or falsehood
- Serbo-Croatian: neistina — lie or falsehood
- Serbo-Croatian: netačnost — lie or falsehood
- Swedish: osanning — lie or falsehood
- Telugu: అసత్యము (asatyamu) — lie or falsehood
- Tocharian B: waike — lie or falsehood
- Welsh: anwiredd — lie or falsehood
- Bulgarian: погрешност (pogrešnost) — the condition of being false