485 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈɒlshʊd], [ fˈɒlshʊd], [ f_ˈɒ_l_s_h_ʊ_d]

Related words: false information, misinformation, fake news, fake story, fake facts, lies, false claim, false accusations, misinformation definition, misinformation examples

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Similar words for falsehood:

• act (noun)
• communication (noun)
• deception (noun)
• dishonesty (noun)
• duplicity (noun)
• erroneousness (noun)
• error (noun)
• exaggeration (noun)
• fable (noun)
• fabrication (noun)
• fallacy (noun)
• false colors (noun)
• falsehood (noun)
• false impression (noun)
• false statement (noun)
• falsity (noun)
• fib (noun)
• fiction (noun)
• figment (noun)
• indirection (noun)
• inveracity (noun)
• lie (noun)
• misrepresentation (noun)
• misstatement (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• perjury (noun)
• rumor (noun)
• story (noun)
• tall talk (noun)
• trick (noun)
• underhandedness (noun)
• untruth (noun)
• untruthfulness (noun)
• whopper (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Falsehood:

• n.

  •
  • imaginings,
  • fantasy,
  • a figment of your imagination.
  •
  • a tissue of lies,
  • true.
  •
  • correct.
  • act (noun)
  • falsehood.
  • communication (noun)
  • untruth.
  • deception (noun)
  • boondoggles,
  • fast one,
  • prevarication,
  • hypocrisy,
  • fraudulence,
  • double-dealing,
  • trumpery,
  • duplicity,
  • Double dealing,
  • beguilements,
  • dupery,
  • beguilement,
  • Defraudation,
  • cunnings,
  • dissimulation,
  • cozenage,
  • deceptiveness,
  • boondoggle.
  • dishonesty (noun)
  • Improbity,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • infidelity,
  • infamy,
  • fourberie,
  • insidiousness,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • chicanes,
  • criminality,
  • sharp practice,
  • chicane,
  • criminalities,
  • wiliness,
  • indirection,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • perfidy.
  • duplicity (noun)
  • twofacedness,
  • dis-semblances,
  • dirty dealings,
  • one upmanship,
  • stab back,
  • oneupmanship,
  • two facedness,
  • dis-semblance,
  • dis semblance,
  • dis semblances,
  • twonesses,
  • judas kisses.
  • erroneousness (noun)
  • incorrectness.
  • error (noun)
  • slip,
  • inaccuracy,
  • misconstruction,
  • misconception,
  • miscalculation,
  • Misjudgment,
  • misestimation,
  • gaffe,
  • mistake,
  • typo,
  • flaw,
  • aberration,
  • misprint,
  • oversight,
  • fault,
  • defect,
  • distortion,
  • blunder.
  • exaggeration (noun)
  • overemphasises,
  • exaltation,
  • extravagance,
  • overemphasis,
  • romance,
  • hogwash,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • tall talk,
  • elaboration,
  • overestimation,
  • tall story.
  • fable (noun)
  • one for the bird,
  • old saws,
  • old chestnuts,
  • one for birds,
  • one for bird.
  • fabrication (noun)
  • song dance.
  • fallacy (noun)
  • quibblings,
  • in exactness,
  • faultinesses,
  • in-consistency,
  • in consistencies,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • in-validity,
  • inexactnesses,
  • pre conception,
  • in-exactness,
  • misconstruals,
  • in consistency,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in-consistencies,
  • pre-conception,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • mis takes,
  • mis interpretations,
  • mis take,
  • in-validities,
  • mis interpretation,
  • non sequiturs,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis-take,
  • in validity,
  • mis-takes,
  • in validities,
  • in exactnesses.
  • false colors (noun)
  • false-colors.
  • falsehood (noun)
  • phoniness,
  • crookedness,
  • deceit,
  • delusion.
  • false impression (noun)
  • false-impression.
  • false statement (noun)
  • false statement.
  • falsity (noun)
  • un-realities,
  • un realities,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un candidnesses,
  • un-candidness,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • un candidness,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un reality,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • un-reality,
  • un faithfulness,
  • un faithfulnesses.
  • fib (noun)
  • spinaches.
  • fiction (noun)
  • work imagination,
  • storytellings,
  • figment imagination,
  • terminological inexactitudes,
  • cliff hanger,
  • cliff hangers,
  • cliff-hangers.
  • figment (noun)
  • castle in air,
  • castle air,
  • castle the air.
  • indirection (noun)
  • in-directions,
  • in direction,
  • in directions,
  • in-direction.
  • inveracity (noun)
  • in-veracity,
  • in veracity,
  • in veracities,
  • in-veracities.
  • lie (noun)
  • cover-up,
  • fallaciousness,
  • feigning,
  • fakery,
  • fibbery,
  • half truth,
  • yarn,
  • equivocation.
  • misrepresentation (noun)
  • false colors.
  • misstatement (noun)
  • not true picture,
  • not a true pictures,
  • mis-statements,
  • not true pictures,
  • false lights,
  • mis statement,
  • mis statements.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • falsification,
  • unreality,
  • fiction,
  • sneakiness,
  • duality,
  • fable,
  • Artifacts,
  • storytelling,
  • false light,
  • misconstrual,
  • dualities,
  • invalidity,
  • rumors,
  • one for the birds,
  • jive,
  • untruthfulness,
  • falsifications,
  • figment of imagination,
  • falsity,
  • dirty trick,
  • uncandidness,
  • mendacity,
  • chestnut,
  • back-fence talk,
  • trickiness,
  • rumor,
  • clotheslines,
  • old saw,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • dishonesty,
  • Untruism,
  • spuriousness,
  • mis-statement,
  • work of imagination,
  • mutilation,
  • erroneousness,
  • invalidities,
  • speciousness,
  • spinach,
  • trick,
  • earful,
  • skullduggery,
  • chestnuts,
  • false impression,
  • clothesline,
  • fallacy,
  • potboilers,
  • elusions,
  • dirty dealing,
  • Illusions,
  • shadiness,
  • tale,
  • elusion,
  • twoness,
  • best seller,
  • jives,
  • mutilations,
  • error,
  • cliff-hanger,
  • story,
  • falseness,
  • invention,
  • misstatement,
  • figment,
  • potboiler,
  • faultiness,
  • not a true picture,
  • artifact,
  • fairy story,
  • bestiary,
  • non sequitur,
  • fib,
  • exaggeration,
  • shiftiness,
  • stab in back,
  • bestiaries,
  • fairy stories,
  • Inveracity,
  • old chestnut,
  • inexactness,
  • deception,
  • whopper,
  • fabrication,
  • truthlessness,
  • underhandedness,
  • slyness,
  • unrealities.
  • perjury (noun)
  • false testimony,
  • false oath.
  • rumor (noun)
  • back-fence talks,
  • dis-patches,
  • backfence talk,
  • earfuls,
  • backfence talks,
  • back fence talks,
  • dis patch,
  • back fence talk,
  • dis patches,
  • dis-patch.
  • story (noun)
  • un truism,
  • untruisms,
  • un-truism,
  • un truisms,
  • cock and bull story,
  • un-truisms.
  • tall talk (noun)
  • tall-talk,
  • over-statement,
  • over statements,
  • over statement,
  • over-statements.
  • trick (noun)
  • dis-guises,
  • de-coy,
  • de-coys,
  • de coys,
  • dis guises,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis guise,
  • de coy.
  • underhandedness (noun)
  • under handedness,
  • under handednesses,
  • under-handedness,
  • under-handednesses.
  • untruth (noun)
  • malarkey,
  • baloney,
  • balderdash,
  • rubbish,
  • rot.
  • untruthfulness (noun)
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • un truthfulness,
  • un truthfulnesses,
  • un-truthfulness.
  • whopper (noun)
  • remarkables,
  • BIGS.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disinformation,
  • phantom,
  • cardboard cut-out,
  • misinformation,
  • simulation,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • hokum,
  • snow job,
  • canard,
  • half-truth,
  • mirage,
  • white lie,
  • simulacrum,
  • Phantasm,
  • fish story,
  • optical illusion,
  • phantasmagoria.
  •
  • bs,
  • tall tale,
  • bull,
  • cover story,
  • flannel,
  • bluff,
  • fraud,
  • apparition,
  • perjury,
  • pretense.
  •
  • sham,
  • concoction.
  •
  • fancy.
  •
  • put on.
  •
  • cover.
  •
  • line.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • farfetched story,
  • Fictitiousness,
  • insincerity,
  • presume,
  • fraudulent,
  • soothe,
  • Miscitation,
  • calumny,
  • imposition,
  • untruthful,
  • untrueness,
  • inept,
  • coax,
  • aspersion,
  • innuendo,
  • misinterpretation,
  • not real,
  • draw,
  • construction,
  • insinuation,
  • stigma,
  • mendacious,
  • reckon,
  • affectedness,
  • mythomania,
  • inapplicable,
  • mollify,
  • Flam,
  • myth,
  • mendaciousness,
  • stain,
  • twister,
  • lying,
  • smirch,
  • perversion,
  • fibbing,
  • relieve,
  • artificial,
  • Pseudology,
  • treacherous,
  • Leasing,
  • history,
  • suspect,
  • crammer,
  • contrivance,
  • illusion,
  • Misreport,
  • dishonest,
  • fish tale,
  • believe,
  • erroneous,
  • consider,
  • palliate,
  • Blague,
  • false,
  • alleviate,
  • libel,
  • imagine,
  • slur,
  • appease,
  • novel,
  • unreal,
  • imaginary,
  • hypocritical,
  • counterfeit,
  • surmise,
  • specious,
  • infer,
  • slander,
  • contradiction,
  • craft,
  • hollow,
  • layer,
  • entice,
  • forgery,
  • little white lie,
  • incongruous,
  • spurious,
  • ghost story,
  • flimflam,
  • disingenuousness,
  • smear,
  • deceptive,
  • tarradiddle,
  • trickery,
  • falsifying,
  • alibi,
  • suppose,
  • confabulation,
  • bounce,
  • misrepresentation,
  • hallucination,
  • speculate,
  • fairy tale,
  • false swearing,
  • fictitious,
  • guile,
  • assume,
  • credibility gap,
  • incorrect,
  • Misbelief,
  • insincere,
  • mitigate,
  • behind ones back,
  • allegory,
  • improper,
  • misquotation,
  • conception,
  • cover up,
  • cunning,
  • deceitfulness,
  • blot,
  • borrow,
  • cram,
  • fake,
  • treacherousness,
  • guess,
  • refutation,
  • knavery,
  • evasiveness,
  • legal fiction,
  • inappropriate,
  • Refutal,
  • faithlessness,
  • funny money,
  • taradiddle,
  • disloyal,
  • bogus,
  • aggravation,
  • pacify,
  • untrue,
  • farrago,
  • bogus money,
  • finesse,
  • dissembling,
  • disproof,
  • deceitful,
  • imitation,
  • unfaithful,
  • excuse.

Paraphrases for Falsehood:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    untruth.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    false.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deceit, lie, misrepresentation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    liar, lying.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deception, dishonesty, fabrication, fake, fallacy, falseness, forgery, mendacity.

Homophones for Falsehood:

• flow sheet, flush it, flight, falcate, flecked, fulgid, flake out, fleshed out, flaccidity, foul shot, flyswat, falsity, foliaged, fly sheet, flighted, false teeth, fabulist, follow suit, fluctuate, false oat, flighty, flaccid, flaxseed, flesh out, folic acid, flushed, flag day, felicity, Filicide, Felis Wiedi, felicitate, flyweight, falsetto.

Hypernym for Falsehood:

• n.

  • act
    frame-up, forgery, setup, sophistication.
  • communication
    scheme, deception, dodge, contradiction in terms, contradiction, fable, dodging, fiction, prevarication, lie, misrepresentation, deceit, fabrication.

Hyponym for Falsehood:

• n.

  • act
    knavery, dishonesty.
  • communication
    statement.