out of true

Adjective
Synonyms: untrue

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. not accurately fitted; not level“the frame was out of true”“off-level floors and untrue doors and windows”Synonyms: untrueOpposite evenSimilar uneven
Word of the day · Nov 15About this word

a state or condition markedly different from the norm

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Out of true

varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; — said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. colloquial

From the entry True.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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