LYING Synonyms

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• pretending with intention to deceive

• the act of deceiving

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• involving deception

• professing feelings or virtues one does not have

• lacking sincerity

• given to lying

• intentionally untrue

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

• dangerously unstable and unpredictable

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

• not worthy of trust or belief

• not expressing or given to expressing the truth

• originate (in)

• have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in

• be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous

• be composed of

• think moodily or anxiously about something

• originate (in)

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• exist or be situated within

• come back to

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• assume a reclining position