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  2. a statement that is not true: It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's private lives. [ U ] the fact that something is not true: The untruth of this statement was immediately clear to me. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  3. 1. archaic : disloyalty. 2. : lack of truthfulness : falsity. 3. : something that is untrue : falsehood. Synonyms. delusion. error. fallacy. falsehood. falsity. hallucination. illusion. misbelief. misconception. myth. old wives' tale. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of untruth in a Sentence.

  4. the state or character of being untrue. want of veracity; divergence from truth. something untrue; a falsehood or lie. Synonyms: invention, fabrication, tale, story, fiction. Archaic. unfaithfulness; disloyalty. untruth. / ʌnˈtruːθ /.

  5. 2 meanings: 1. the state or quality of being untrue 2. a statement, fact, etc, that is not true.... Click for more definitions.

  6. untruth. [countable] (formal) a lie. People often say ‘untruth’ to avoid saying ‘lie’. Her account of what had happened was a patent untruth. [uncountable] the state of being false. Definition of untruth noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

  7. not telling the truth completely, or containing or telling lies: He claimed that the report was inaccurate, untruthful, and incomplete. We are all very upset by these untruthful allegations. Fewer examples. I said months ago that he was a very untruthful person, but I didn't realize quite how bad he was.

  8. a statement that is not true: It's not the first time that the paper has been in trouble for printing untruths about people's private lives. [ U ] the fact that something is not true: The untruth of this statement was immediately clear to me. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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