untruth | Definition of untruth

Synonyms and Antonyms of untruth

1 a false idea or belief

their argument rests on a fundamental untruth which has long been discredited

Synonyms of untruth

delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wives' tale

Words Related to untruth

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of untruth

2 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

the Web site is rife with untruths and misleading information

Synonyms of untruth

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), whopper

Words Related to untruth

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms of untruth

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of untruth

3 the quality or state of being false

there is an element of untruth in all forms of art: works of art provide only a semblance of reality

Synonyms of untruth

erroneousness, fallaciousness, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity

Words Related to untruth

speciousness, spuriousness

deception, deceptiveness, delusion

inaccuracy, incorrectness

dishonesty, mendaciousness, mendacity, untruthfulness

Near Antonyms of untruth

accuracy, actuality, correctness, factuality, factualness, genuineness

credibility, honesty, trustworthiness, truthfulness, veracity

Antonyms of untruth