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lie - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, slander, subterfuge, tale, white lie*, whopper, calumniation, disinformation, falseness, falsification, fraudulence, revilement, reviling, tall story, vilification
Notes: to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline
Antonyms: honesty, truth
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tell an untruth
Synonyms: beguile, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, make believe, malign, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, snow*, string along*, victimize, BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, break promise, go back on, misguide, misinstruct, misspeak, overdraw, put up a front, soft-soap
Antonyms: be honest
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be prostrate, flat
Synonyms: couch, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, sleep, sprawl, turn in, be prone, be recumbent, be supine, go to bed, laze, lie down, siesta, stretch out
Antonyms: stand, straighten, be upright
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be situated
Synonyms: be, belong, beset, exist, extend, occupy, prevail, reach, remain, spread, stretch, be beside, be buried, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be seated, be smooth, have its seat in
Main Entry: backbiting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hateful talk
Synonyms: abuse, aspersion, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, disparagement, gossip, invective, lie, malice, obloquy, scandal, slander, spite, tale, vituperation, backstabbing, belittlement, calumniation, cattiness, denigration, spitefulness, traducement, vilification
Antonyms: encouragement, praise
Main Entry: bluff
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deceive
Synonyms: affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake*, feign, fool, humbug*, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on*, sham*, shuck*, simulate, snow*, take in*, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive*, psych out
Antonyms: come clean, reveal, tell truth
Main Entry: casuistry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning
Synonyms: chicanery, deception, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, sophism, sophistry, trick, deceptiveness, oversubtleness, speciousness, spuriousness
Main Entry: consist
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exist, reside
Synonyms: abide, be, dwell, lie, repose, rest, subsist, be contained in, be expressed by, be found in, inhere
Main Entry: defamation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: libel, slander
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, black eye*, calumny, character assassination, depreciation, detraction, dirt, disparagement, dump*, dynamite, hit, knock, lie, mud, obloquy, opprobrium, slam*, slime, slur, smear, tale, backstabbing, belittlement, cheap shot, denigration, dirty laundry, low-down dirty, scorcher, slap in face, traducement, vilification
Antonyms: approval, commendation, compliment, exaltation, praise
Main Entry: detraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misrepresentation; slander
Synonyms: abuse, aspersion, backbiting*, calumny, damage, defamation, disparagement, harm, hit, hurt, injury, injustice, innuendo, insinuation, knock*, libel, lie, obloquy, pejorative, ridicule, scandal, slam, smear campaign*, tale, vituperation, wrong, backstabbing, belittlement, denigration, deprecation, derogation, disesteem, libeling, maligning, minimization, muckraking, revilement, running down, scandalmongering, scurrility, traducement, traducing, vilification
Antonyms: admiration, adulation, flattery, praise
Main Entry: disparagement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong criticism; detraction
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting*, blame, calumny, censure, condemnation, contempt, contumely, debasement, degradation, denunciation, depreciation, derision, discredit, disdain, lessening, lie, prejudice, reproach, ridicule, scandal, scorn, slander, tale, backstabbing, belittlement, derogation, impairment, underestimation
Antonyms: approval, commendation, compliment, flattery, praise, sanction
Main Entry: distort
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deform; falsify
Synonyms: alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge*, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up
Antonyms: beautify, straight, shape nicely
Main Entry: distortion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deformity; falsification
Synonyms: baloney*, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, exaggeration, jazz*, lie, line, malformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, torture, twist, warp, BS, crookedness, intorsion, jive*, malconformation, misinterpretation, misshape, mutilation, tall story, twistedness
Antonyms: beauty, clarity, perfection
Main Entry: equivocate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: avoid an issue
Synonyms: blow hot and cold*, cavil, con, cop a plea, cop out*, dodge, double-talk, elude, escape, eschew, evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop*, fudge*, hedge, hem and haw*, lie, palter, parry, pass the buck*, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, stonewall*, tergiversate, waffle*, weasel*, beat around the bush, beg the question, cloud the issue, cover up, give run around, jive*, mince words, run around, sit on the fence, tell white lie, tergiverse
Antonyms: face, meet, speak on
Main Entry: equivocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance of an issue
Synonyms: ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation
Antonyms: facing, meeting, directness
Main Entry: evade
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get away from
Synonyms: avoid, baffle, balk, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off*, flee, fly, fudge*, hedge, hide, lie, parry, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put off, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, tergiversate, trick, waffle*, weasel*, beat around bush, beg the question, get around, give the runaround, keep distance, lay low*, lead on a merry chase, pass up, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of
Antonyms: face, meet, take on
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: escape, avoidance
Synonyms: artifice, cunning, ditch*, dodge*, equivocation, evasiveness, excuse, lie, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, slip*, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, subterfuge, trick, trickery, circumvention, cop-out, dodging, elusion, equivocating, eschewal, evading, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, obliqueness, shirking, shuffling, shunning
Antonyms: facing, meeting, directness
Main Entry: exaggerate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: overstate, embellish
Synonyms: amplify, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up*, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge*, heighten, hike, inflate, intensify, lie, magnify, misrepresent, overdo, pad*, puff, put on, pyramid*, romance, scam, stretch, up*, blow out of proportion, go to extremes, hyperbolize, lay it on thick, loud talk, make too much of, misquote, misreport, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pretty up, romanticize
Antonyms: depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate
Main Entry: fable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: falsify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: alter, misrepresent
Synonyms: adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up*, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fib, forge, garble, gloss, lie, misstate, palter, pervert, prevaricate, promote, put on an act*, salt*, traverse, twist, warp, fake it, four-flush, frame up, misquote, phony up, tamper with, trump up
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