English-Thai Dictionary

untruth

N การ โกหก  การ หลอกลวง  deception dishonesty honesty frankness kan-ko-hok

 

untruthful

ADJ ที่ พูดโกหก  lying dishonest deceitful honest ti-phud-ko-hok

 

untruthfulness

N การ โกหก  lie kan-ko-hok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNTRUTH

n. 1. Contrariety to truth; falsehood.
2. Want of veracity.
3. Treachery; want of fidelity. Obs.
4. False assertion.
No untruth can possibly avail the patron and defender long.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

UNTRUTH

UNTRUTH Un *truth ", n.

 

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.

 

UNTRUTHFUL

UNTRUTHFUL Un *truth "ful, a.

 

Defn: Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un *truth "ful *ly, adv. -- Un *truth "ful *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

untruth

un truth |ˌənˈtro͞oTH ˌənˈtruθ | ▶noun ( pl. untruths |-ˈtro͞oT͟Hz, -ˈtro͞oTHs | ) a lie or false statement (often used euphemistically ): they go off and tell untruths about organizations for which they worked. • the quality of being false. ORIGIN Old English untrēowth ‘unfaithfulness ’ (see un- 1, truth ).

 

untruthful

un truth ful |ˌənˈtro͞oTHfəl ˌənˈtruθfəl | ▶adjective saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect: companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures. DERIVATIVES un truth ful ly adverb, un truth ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

untruth

un |truth |ʌnˈtruːθ | ▶noun ( pl. untruths |-ˈtruːðz, -ˈtruːθs | ) a lie or false statement (often used euphemistically ): they go off and tell untruths about organizations for which they worked. • [ mass noun ] the quality of being false. ORIGIN Old English untrēowth ‘unfaithfulness ’ (see un- 1, truth ).

 

untruthful

un |truth ¦ful |ʌnˈtruːθfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect: companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures. DERIVATIVES untruthfully adverb, untruthfulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

untruth

untruth noun 1 a patent untruth: lie, falsehood, fib, fabrication, invention, falsification, half-truth, exaggeration; story, myth, piece of fiction; informal tall story, fairy tale, cock-and-bull story, whopper. 2 the total untruth of the story: falsity, falsehood, falseness, untruthfulness, fictitiousness; fabrication, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, inaccuracy, unreliability.

 

untruthful

untruthful adjective 1 the answers may be untruthful: false, untrue, fabricated, made up, invented, trumped up; erroneous, wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, fallacious, fictitious. 2 an untruthful person: lying, mendacious, dishonest, deceitful, duplicitous, false, double-dealing, two-faced, untrustworthy, dishonorable; informal crooked; literary perfidious. ANTONYMS honest.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

untruth

untruth noun 1 her account of what had happened was a patent untruth: lie, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, fiction, piece of fiction, falsification, falsity, cock and bull story, barefaced lie; (little ) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, prevarication, departure from the truth; yarn, story, red herring, rumour, fable, myth, flight of fancy, figment of the imagination; pretence, pretext, sham, ruse, wile, stratagem; (untruths ) misinformation, disinformation, trickery, perjury, dissimulation, gossip, propaganda; informal tall story, tall tale, fairy story, fairy tale, whopper; Brit. informal porky, pork pie, porky pie; humorous terminological inexactitude, economy with the truth; vulgar slang bullshit; Austral. /NZ vulgar slang bulldust. 2 he was livid at the total untruth of the story: falsity, falsehood, falseness, untruthfulness, fallaciousness, fiction, fictitiousness, inaccuracy, hollowness; mendacity, fabrication, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, duplicity, disingenuousness, hypocrisy, fraud, fraudulence; informal kidology; rare unveracity.

 

untruthful

untruthful adjective 1 the answers may be untruthful: false, untrue, fabricated, made up, invented, concocted, trumped up; erroneous, in error, wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact; flawed, specious, fallacious, unsound, unfounded, misguided, distorted, out, misleading; fictitious, fabulous, mythical, mythological; humorous economical with the truth. 2 an untruthful person: lying, mendacious, perfidious, dishonest, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, duplicitous, dissimulating, dissembling, false, double-dealing, two-faced, guileful, underhand, sneaky, disingenuous; informal crooked, bent, tricky; archaic hollow-hearted. ANTONYMS honest, truthful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

untruth

ù n tr ú th 名詞 C ｟かたく ｠うそ 〘lie 2 の婉曲語 〙; U 虚偽 .

 

untruthful

ù n tr ú th ful 形容詞 〈事が 〉うその, 偽りの ; 〈人が 〉正直でない, (よく )うそを言う .～ly 副詞