Lie Synonyms and Antonyms

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Anything calculated to mislead another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. falsification
  2. evasion
  3. deceit
An intentional misstatement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prevarication
  2. falsehood
  3. fib
  4. fiction
  5. misrepresentation
  6. untruth
  7. canard
  8. cock-and-bull story
  9. misstatement
  10. hyperbole
  11. fabrication
  12. story
  13. tale
  14. mendacity
  15. inveracity
  16. subterfuge
  17. fish story
  18. whopper
  19. fraudulence
  20. inaccuracy
  21. myth
  22. fable
  23. deceptiveness
  24. disinformation
  25. barefaced-lie
  26. dirty lie
  27. inoperative statement
  28. lying
  29. untruthfulness
  30. falsification
  31. falsity
  32. falseness
  33. falsifying
  34. defamation
  35. detraction
  36. concealment
  37. tall-story
  38. equivocation
  39. calumny
  40. deception
  41. evasion
  42. slander
  43. backbiting
  44. calumniation
  45. exaggeration
  46. aspersion
  47. revilement
  48. untruism
  49. vilification
  50. reviling
  51. Trygve Lie
  52. false swearing
  53. perjury
  54. fabulation
  55. libel
  56. forgery
  57. distortion
  58. obloquy
  59. garbled version
  60. guile
  61. white-lie
  62. corker
  63. lollapalooza
  64. cock-and-bull
  65. crock
  66. moonshine
  67. hogwash
  68. dispute
  69. belie
  70. prove false
  71. tall tale
  72. pseudology
  73. roorback
  74. subreption
  75. tergiversation
  76. Trygve Halvden Lie
Antonyms:
  1. truth
  2. fact
  3. veracity
  4. truthfulness
  5. honesty
To be prostrate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rest
  2. be recumbent
  3. be helpless
  4. Also used with down: recline
  5. be supine
  6. be exhausted
  7. be flat
  8. be prone
  9. repose
  10. sprawl
  11. loll
  12. laze
  13. be stretched out
  14. be powerless
  15. be thrown down
  16. stretch
Antonyms:
  1. stand
  2. be upright
  3. sit
  4. arise
  5. straighten
To assume a prostrate position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lie-down
  2. repose
  3. recline
  4. Also used with down: recline
  5. stretch-out
  6. couch
  7. go-to-bed
  8. turn in
  9. retire
  10. take a nap
  11. take a siesta
  12. hit-the-hay
  13. submit
  14. surrender
  15. be passive
  16. stretch
Antonyms:
  1. rise
  2. get up
  3. arise
  4. stand
  5. be upright
  6. sit
To be situated
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dwell
  2. consist
  3. extend
  4. be on
  5. be beside
  6. be located
  7. be fixed
  8. be established
  9. be placed
  10. be seated
  11. be set
  12. exist
  13. be level
  14. be smooth
  15. be-even
  16. inhere
  17. be plane
  18. exist in space
  19. prevail
  20. repose
  21. endure
  22. stretch along
  23. reach along
  24. reside
  25. spread along
  26. rest
  27. lie-in
Falsify
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. tell truth
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. abject
  2. blatant
  3. mendacious
  4. prevaricative
  5. tergiversatory

Words Related to Lie

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Lie Sentence Examples

  • I can't lie to him.

  • Zeb was also escorted to a room--so grand and beautiful that he almost feared to sit in the chairs or lie upon the bed, lest he might dim their splendor.

  • Jennifer didn't lie about her father.

  • You'd better lie down, said the countess.

  • You usually lie like a bragging fisherman, so I stopped asking.

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