Word Meanings - UNTRUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak. Syn. --
Additional info about word: UNTRUTH
1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak. Syn. -- Lie; falsehood. See Lie.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNTRUTH)
- Error
- Fault
- mistake
- blunder
- falsity
- deception
- fallacy
- untruth
- hallucination
- Falsehood
- Untruth
- error
- sophistry
- forgery
- lie
- cheat
- Lie
- fabrication
- subterfuge
- evasion
- fib
- fiction
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNTRUTH)
Related words: (words related to UNTRUTH)
- FAULTINESS
Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak. - BLUNDERHEAD
A stupid, blundering fellow. - BLUNDERER
One who is apt to blunder. - CHEATABLE
Capable of being cheated. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - SUBTERFUGE
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force - ERRORFUL
Full of error; wrong. Foxe. - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. - GUIDEBOOK
A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc. - FICTIONIST
A writer of fiction. Lamb. - MISTAKER
One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall. - FICTION
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. -- - FAULT
A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want; - MISTAKE
1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought - BLUNDERING
Characterized by blunders. - FAULTING
The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced. - FORGERY
1. The act of forging metal into shape. Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be - GUIDE ROPE
A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas. - GUIDE
A grooved director for a probe or knife. A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting. (more info) 1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points - BLUNDERINGLY
In a blundering manner. - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - TERRORLESS
Free from terror. Poe. - ESCHEATOR
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. - TERRORIZE
To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.