Another word for lie
lie
n.
An intentional misstatement
falsehood, untruth, fib, fiction, hyperbole, fraudulence, inaccuracy, misstatement, myth, fable, deceptiveness, disinformation, barefaced lie, dirty lie, misrepresentation, inoperative statement, lying, untruthfulness, prevarication, mendacity, falsification, falseness, falsifying, subterfuge, defamation, detraction, tale, story, tall story, cock-and-bull story, calumny, fabrication, deception, slander, backbiting, calumniation, aspersion, revilement, untruism, vilification, reviling, false swearing, perjury, libel, forgery, distortion, obloquy, garbled version, guile, white lie, corker*, fish story*, lollapalooza*, whopper*, cock and bull*, crock*, moonshine*, hogwash*; see also dishonesty.
Anything calculated to mislead another
lie
v.
To utter an untruth
falsify, prevaricate, fib, tell a lie, equivocate, fabricate, deceive, mislead, misinform, misrepresent, exaggerate, distort, misstate, misspeak, concoct, tell a falsehood, be untruthful, forswear, be a liar, dupe, pervert, slant, twist, overstate, embellish, embroider, overdraw, bear false witness, say one thing and mean another, dissimulate, dissemble, perjure oneself, delude, malign, invent, manufacture, make up, trump up, palter, beguile, tell a white lie, stretch the truth, spin a long yarn*, bull*, make out of whole cloth*.
To be situated
extend, be on, be beside, be located, be fixed, be established, be placed, be seated, be set, be level, be smooth, be even, be plane, exist in space, prevail, endure, stretch along, reach along, spread along; see also occupy 2.
To be prostrate
be recumbent, be helpless, be supine, be exhausted, be flat, be prone, sprawl, loll, laze, be stretched out, be powerless, be thrown down; see also sense 4, rest 2.
Antonyms stand*, be upright, sit.
To assume a prostrate position
lie down, recline, repose, stretch out, couch, go to bed, turn in, retire, take a nap, take a siesta, hit the hay*; see also rest 1, sleep.
lie is the simple direct word meaning to make a deliberately false statement; prevaricate strictly means to quibble or confuse the issue in order to evade the truth, but it is loosely used as a formal or affected substitute for lie; equivocate implies the deliberate use of ambiguity in order to deceive or mislead; fabricate suggests the invention of a false story, excuse, etc. intended to deceive but may be somewhat softer in connotation than lie; fib implies the telling of a falsehood about something unimportant and is sometimes a euphemism for lie
take lying down
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Another word for lie
To be or place oneself in a prostrate or recumbent position.
Also used with down: recline, repose, stretch (out). See horizontalTo take repose, as by sleeping or lying quietly.
Also used with down: recline, repose, rest1, stretch (out). See continueTo have an inherent basis:
consist, dwell, exist, inhere, repose, reside, rest1. See start
An untrue declaration:
canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. (Informal) fish story, tall tale. (Slang) whopper. See true
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"lie." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 20 May 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Lie>.
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lie. (n.d.). Retrieved May 20th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/Lie
