Untruth - English meaning

Untruth – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A lie or false statement (often used euphemistically).
Usage examples:
They go off and tell untruths about organizations for which they worked
Synonims:
Lie Falsehood Fib Fabrication Deception Made-up story Trumped-up story Fake news Invention Fiction Piece of fiction Falsification Falsity Cock and bull story Barefaced lie (little) white lie

noun
A statement that is not true
Usage examples:
It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's pri…

Untruth translation into English

Untruth: translate from English into Chinese

谎言

Untruth: translate from English into Dutch

Onwaarheid

Untruth: translate from English into French

Mensonge, Fausseté

Untruth: translate from English into German

Unwahrheit

Untruth: translate from English into Hindi

बेईमानी, कुटिलता, मिथ्या

Untruth: translate from English into Italian

Falsità

Untruth: translate from English into Korean

거짓, 허위, 부실

Untruth: translate from English into Russian

Неправда, Ложь, Неверность

Untruth: translate from English into Spanish

Mentira, No verdad, Cosa falsa

Word origin

Old English untrēowth ‘unfaithfulness’ (see un-1, truth).

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Untruth – similar words

untruthful

adjective
Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect.
Usage examples:
Companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures

adjective
Not telling the truth completely, or containing or telling lies
Usage examples:
He claimed that the report was inaccurate, untruthful, and incomplete., we are all very upset by th…

Untruthful - all meanings in English

Untruth synonims

deception

noun
The action of deceiving someone.
Usage examples:
Obtaining property by deception

Deception - all meanings in English

fabrication

noun
The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.
Usage examples:
The assembly and fabrication of electronic products

noun
The act of inventing false information in order to deceive someone, or the false information itself
Usage examples:
The report stopped short of accusing anyone of fabrication of evidence., the evidence he gave in co…

Fabrication - all meanings in English

falsehood

noun
The state of being untrue.
Usage examples:
The truth or falsehood of the many legends which surround her

noun
Something that is not true; a lie

Falsehood - all meanings in English

falsification

noun
The action of falsifying information or a theory.
Usage examples:
An investigation into fraud and the falsification of records

Falsification - all meanings in English

falsity

noun
The fact of being untrue, incorrect, or insincere.
Usage examples:
He exposed the falsity of the claim

noun
The state of not being correct
Usage examples:
Events have shown the falsity of such beliefs., society, he claims, is built on falsity and pretence.

Falsity - all meanings in English

fib

noun
A lie, typically an unimportant one.
Usage examples:
Why did you tell him such a dreadful fib?

verb
Tell a fib.
Usage examples:
But a cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: we…

noun
An unimportant lie
Usage examples:
Have you been telling fibs about me?, george was fibbing some to make things seem more exciting.

Fib - all meanings in English

fiction

noun
Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

noun
The type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and does not describe real people or deal with facts, or a false report or statement that you pretend is true
Usage examples:
[ u ] she wrote detective fiction and made a good living at it., [ c usually sing ] it was a fictio…

Fiction - all meanings in English

invention

noun
The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.
Usage examples:
The invention of printing in the 15th century

noun
Something newly designed or created, or the activity of designing or creating new things
Usage examples:
[ c ] the mountain bike was a california invention., [ u ] the invention of the pressure cooker pro…

noun
A product or a way of doing something which has never been made or never existed before
Usage examples:
Turning an invention from an idea into a money-making product is a long job., a new inventions, the…

Invention - all meanings in English

lie

verb
(of a person or animal) be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface.
Usage examples:
The body lay face downwards on the grass

noun
The way, direction, or position in which something lies.
Usage examples:
He was familiarizing himself with the lie of the streets

verb
Tell a lie or lies.
Usage examples:
Why had ashenden lied about his visit to london?

Lie - all meanings in English

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