Truth vs. False

Truthnoun

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

‘The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.’;

Falseadjective

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Truthnoun

Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.

‘There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.’;

Falseadjective

Based on factually incorrect premises.

‘false legislation, false punishment’;

Truthnoun

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

‘Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.’;

Falseadjective

Spurious, artificial.

‘false teeth’;

Truthnoun

(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.

Falseadjective

(logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.

Truthnoun

(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.

Falseadjective

Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

‘a false witness’;

Truthnoun

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

Falseadjective

Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

‘a false friend, lover, or subject;’; ‘false to promises’;

Truthnoun

That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.

‘The truth is what is.’; ‘Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.’;

Falseadjective

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

‘a false conclusion;’; ‘a false construction in grammar’;

Truthnoun

(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.

‘Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.’;

Falseadjective

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

Truthnoun

Topness. (See also truth quark.)

Falseadjective

(music) Out of tune.

Truthverb

To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.

Falseadverb

Not truly; not honestly; falsely.

Truthverb

To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.

Falsenoun

One of two options on a true-or-false test.

‘The student received a failing grade for circling every true and false on her quiz.’;

Truthverb

To tell the truth.

Falseadjective

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

Truthnoun

The quality or being true; as: - (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Falseadjective

Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.

‘I to myself was false, ere thou to me.’;

Truthnoun

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

‘Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.’;

Falseadjective

Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

Truthnoun

That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

‘Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.’; ‘I long to know the truth here of at large.’; ‘The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.’;

Falseadjective

Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.

‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know.’;

Truthnoun

Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

‘Alas! they had been friends in youth,But whispering tongues can poison truth.’;

Falseadjective

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.

‘Whose false foundation waves have swept away.’;

Truthnoun

A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

‘Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth.’;

Falseadjective

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

Truthnoun

The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

‘If this will not suffice, it must appearThat malice bears down truth.’;

Falseadjective

Not in tune.

Truthnoun

Righteousness; true religion.

‘Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.’; ‘Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.’; ‘He that doeth truth cometh to the light.’;

Falseadverb

Not truly; not honestly; falsely.

Truthverb

To assert as true; to declare.

‘Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.’;

Falseverb

To report falsely; to falsify.

Truthnoun

a fact that has been verified;

‘at last he knew the truth’; ‘the truth is the he didn't want to do it’;

Falseverb

To betray; to falsify.

‘[He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise.’;

Truthnoun

conformity to reality or actuality;

‘they debated the truth of the proposition’; ‘the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat’; ‘he was famous for the truth of his portraits’; ‘he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities’;

Falseverb

To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.

‘In his falsed fancy.’;

Truthnoun

a true statement;

‘he told the truth’; ‘he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it’;

Falseverb

To feign; to pretend to make.

Truthnoun

the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value;

‘he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass’; ‘the lawyer questioned the truth of my account’;

Falseadjective

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality;

‘gave false testimony under oath’; ‘false tales of bravery’;

Truthnoun

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)

Falseadjective

arising from error;

‘a false assumption’; ‘a mistaken view of the situation’;

Truth

Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. In everyday language, truth is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences.Truth is usually held to be the opposite of falsehood.

Falseadjective

erroneous and usually accidental;

‘a false start’; ‘a false alarm’;

Falseadjective

deliberately deceptive;

‘hollow (or false) promises’; ‘false pretenses’;

Falseadjective

inappropriate to reality or facts;

‘delusive faith in a wonder drug’; ‘delusive expectations’; ‘false hopes’;

Falseadjective

not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;

‘it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur’; ‘faux pearls’; ‘false teeth’; ‘decorated with imitation palm leaves’; ‘a purse of simulated alligator hide’;

Falseadjective

designed to deceive;

‘a suitcase with a false bottom’;

Falseadjective

inaccurate in pitch;

‘a false (or sour) note’; ‘her singing was off key’;

Falseadjective

adopted in order to deceive;

‘an assumed name’; ‘an assumed cheerfulness’; ‘a fictitious address’; ‘fictive sympathy’; ‘a pretended interest’; ‘a put-on childish voice’; ‘sham modesty’;

Falseadjective

(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful;

‘a false friend’; ‘when lovers prove untrue’;

Falseadverb

in a disloyal and faithless manner;

‘he behaved treacherously’; ‘his wife played him false’;