lying

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”)

Noun

The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.

Noun

An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.

Adj

Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious

lie

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lye

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Synonyms

untruthful

false

mendacious

deceitful

untrue

dishonest

untruthfulness

situated

deceptive

recumbent

prevarication

falsehood

spurious

lie

reclining

insincerity

cheating

deceiving

fabrication

deceit

sleeping

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falsification

mendacity

falsifying

fibbing

wrong

dishonesty

deceitfulness

pretending

procumbent

prone

prostate

remaining

resting

settling down

sham

sitting

sitting down

slavering

staying

supine

swindling

thieving

tricking

tricky

truthless

is there

lying down

speaking falsely

who lies

Translations

mentiroso

embustero

bugiardo

verlogen

liegend

menteur

lügenhaft

falsidicus

mensonge

mentira

leugenachtig

ψευδόμενος

mentira

falso

yacente

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/

Etymology

lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) + -ing.