Synonyms of falsehood

falsehood

noun

ˈfȯls-ˌhu̇d 

1

as in delusion

a false idea or belief

the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• delusion
• myth
• error
• illusion
• superstition
• untruth
• misconception
• fallacy
• misunderstanding
• falsity
• misbelief
• hallucination
• lie
• distortion
• fiction
• pretense
• old wives' tale
• misrepresentation
• tale
• misinformation
• inaccuracy
• misinterpretation
• misstatement
• factoid
• misperception
• miscomprehension
• misapprehension
• misjudgment
• sophism
• half-truth
• sophistry
• story
• fib
• misreport
• misknowledge

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• verity

2

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

several falsehoods in the witness's testimony that may be grounds for perjury

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• untruth
• falsity
• mendacity
• fabrication
• fable
• fairy tale
• prevarication
• fib
• distortion
• ambiguity
• exaggeration
• whopper
• fiction
• taradiddle
• defamation
• slander
• libel
• half-truth
• deceit
• fraudulence
• perjury
• nonsense
• misrepresentation
• equivocation
• obliquity
• myth
• misconception
• misinformation
• fallacy
• bluff
• misstatement
• falsification
• dishonesty
• duplicity
• pose
• pretense
• canard
• humbug
• deceitfulness
• jive
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• truthfulness
• honesty
• truism
• veracity
• verification
• confirmation
• validation
• verity
• authentication
• substantiation

3

as in deception

the quality or state of being false

scientists eventually demonstrated the falsehood of the claim that prehistoric fish did not evolve lungs and legs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deception
• falseness
• deceptiveness
• untruth
• fallacy
• delusion
• falsity
• erroneousness
• fallaciousness
• spuriousness
• inaccuracy
• speciousness
• dishonesty
• untruthfulness
• incorrectness
• mendacity
• mendaciousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• verity
• accuracy
• correctness
• genuineness
• actuality
• truthfulness
• credibility
• honesty
• trustworthiness
• veracity
• factuality
• factualness

4

as in deceit

the tendency to tell lies

a cynic who believes that politics are a veritable fount of falsehood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceit
• deceitfulness
• untruthfulness
• dishonesty
• mendacity
• mendaciousness
• falseness
• duplicity
• insincerity
• fakery
• crookedness
• cunning
• dissimulation
• hypocrisy
• dissembling
• double-dealing
• guile
• craftiness
• wiliness
• artifice
• trickishness
• craft
• guilefulness
• foxiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truthfulness
• integrity
• honesty
• veracity
• verity
• sincerity
• honor
• good faith
• probity
• frankness
• reliability
• accuracy
• candor
• objectivity
• trustworthiness
• straightforwardness
• dependability
• incorruptibility
• correctness
• veraciousness
• authenticity
• credibility
• genuineness
• candidness
• plainspokenness
• reliableness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of falsehood

Yet no one was held accountable, not the Bush administration officials who orchestrated the war based on falsehoods, nor the journalists and editors who failed to do their jobs. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

The second, given by Stille, enlisted a recurrent theme in Eco’s fiction — how falsehood often trumps truth — to discuss the crisis of liberal democracy and its institutions. — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026

Enough is enough -- this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop. — Mike Toole, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Another example of say anything, even falsehoods, to get elected. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026