untruth - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | untruth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood |
| Synonyms: | canard, deceit, distortion, lie, misrepresentation, prevarication, whopper* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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