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UNTRUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untruth mean? 

UNTRUTH (noun)
  The noun UNTRUTH has 1 sense:

1. a false statementplay

  Familiarity information: UNTRUTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNTRUTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A false statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

falsehood; falsity; untruth

Hypernyms ("untruth" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "untruth"):

dodge; dodging; scheme (a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery)

lie; prevarication (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)

fable; fabrication; fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)

deceit; deception; misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

contradiction; contradiction in terms ((logic) a statement that is necessarily false)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"There's no arguing with the barrel of a gun." (English proverb)

"Words coming from far away are always half true, half false." (Bhutanese proverb)

"Every day of your life is a page of your history." (Arabic proverb)

"Don't judge the dog by its fur." (Danish proverb)



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