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untruth - 19 thesaurus results
Main Entry: untruth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falsehood
Synonyms: canard, deceit, distortion, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, whopper*
Main Entry: error
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mistake; wrong
Synonyms: absurdity, blunder, boner*, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof*, inaccuracy, lapse, misconception, miscue, misdeed, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing, X*, bad job, boo-boo, howler, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misjudgment, mismanagement, screamer, screw-up
Antonyms: accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity
Main Entry: exaggeration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overstatement, embellishment
Synonyms: amplification, baloney*, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock*, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story*, flight of fancy*, hogwash*, hyperbole, inflation, jazz*, line*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story
Antonyms: reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment
Main Entry: fable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fallacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illusion, misconception
Synonyms: aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness
Antonyms: certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth
Main Entry: falsehood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: falsity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dishonesty, deception
Synonyms: canard, cheating, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, unfaithfulness, untruth, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, erroneousness, fraudulence, perfidiousness, perfidy, uncandidness, unreality
Antonyms: honesty, truth, truthfulness
Main Entry: fib
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: undetailed lie
Synonyms: canard, crock*, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale*, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz*, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn*, spinach, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fiction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story
Synonyms: anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination
Antonyms: truth, non-fiction
Main Entry: misrepresentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falsehood
Synonyms: adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story
Main Entry: misstatement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misrepresentation
Synonyms: adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, inaccuracy, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story
Main Entry: perjury
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lying while under oath
Synonyms: deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsehood, untruth, false oath, false swearing, false testimony, falsification, untruthfulness
Main Entry: white lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: little lie
Synonyms: exaggeration, untruth, half-truth, harmless untruth, little white lie, mental dishonesty, near truth, partial truth, slight stretch, suggestio falsi, trivial untruth, well-intentioned untruth
Main Entry: whopper
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: big lie
Synonyms: fabrication, falsehood, lie, story, tale, untruth
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misleading; being dishonest
Synonyms: betrayal, blarney*, cheat, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dirt, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job*, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trumpery, untruth, beguilement, boondoggle, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, deceptiveness, defraudation, disinformation, dissimulation, dupery, fast one, fraudulence, hokum, trickiness
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, honor, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness, trustworthiness
Main Entry: fabrication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: concoction, deceit, fable, fake*, falsehood, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, hogwash*, invention, jazz*, line*, myth, opus, smoke*, song and dance*, untruth, work, yarn, artifact, fairy story, jive*
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: invention
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fabrication, lie
Synonyms: deceit, fake, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, prevarication, sham*, story, untruth, yarn*, tall story
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: story
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cock-and-bull story*, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, misrepresentation, prevarication, tale, untruth, white lie*, untruism
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story
Synonyms: canard, cock-and-bull story*, defamation, detraction, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, rigmarole*, rumor, scandal, slander, spiel*, untruth, yarn*, chestnut*, clothesline, tall story, untruism
Antonyms: non-fiction
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