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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNTRUE, a.
1. Not true; false; contrary to the fact. The story is untrue.
2. Not faithful to another; not fulfilling the duties of a husband, wife, vassal, etc.; false; disloyal.
3. Inconstant; as a lover.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"
2: not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske
3: not accurately fitted; not level; "the frame was out of true"; "off-level floors and untrue doors and windows" [syn: out of true, untrue]
4: (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [syn: false, untrue]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: before 12th century 1. not faithful ; disloyal 2. not according with a standard of correctness ; not level or exact 3. not according with the facts ; false • untruly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not true, contrary to what is the fact. 2 (often foll. by to) not faithful or loyal. 3 deviating from an accepted standard. Derivatives: untruly adv. Etymology: OE untreowe etc. (as UN-(1), TRUE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Untrue Un*true", a. 1. Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue. 2. Not faithful; inconstant; false; disloyal. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Untrue Un*true, adv. Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] --Chaucer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a statement or idea is untrue, it is false and not based on facts. The allegations were completely untrue... It was untrue to say that all political prisoners have been released... Such remarks are both offensive and untrue. ? true ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. False, contrary to fact. 2. Faithless, treacherous, recreant, false, disloyal, unfaithful, perfidious.

Moby Thesaurus

aberrant, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, capricious, contrary to fact, corrupt, deceitful, deceptive, defective, delusive, derelict, deviant, deviational, deviative, devious, disaffected, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, disregardful, distorted, duplicitous, errant, erring, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, fickle, flawed, forsworn, heretical, heterodox, hypocritical, illogical, illusory, imperfect, imprecise, in error, inaccurate, inattentive, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, inobservant, insincere, misleading, mistaken, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant, not right, not true, not true to, of bad faith, off, off the track, out, peccant, perfidious, perjured, perverse, perverted, recreant, self-contradictory, specious, straying, substandard, traitorous, treacherous, trothless, truthless, two-faced, uncompliant, unconforming, undependable, unfactual, unfaithful, unfounded, unloyal, unobservant, unorthodox, unprecise, unproved, unreliable, unsound, unsteadfast, untrustworthy, wide, wrong