Synonyms of the word lie


LIEBE - BELONG - CONSIST - DIPLOMAT - DIPLOMATIST - DWELL - EXIST - FALSEHOOD - FALSITY - MISINFORM - MISLEAD - PLACE - POSITION - PREVARICATION - REST - UNTRUTH

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

belong

  • v. (intransitive) To have its proper place.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To be deserved by.
  • prep. (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to.

consist

  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exist, to be.
  • v. (intransitive) To be comprised or contained in.
  • v. (intransitive) To be composed, formed, or made up of.
  • n. (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that…

diplomat

  • n. A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations…
  • n. (figuratively) Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people.

diplomatist

  • n. a diplomat.

dwell

  • n. (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
  • n. (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
  • n. (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
  • n. (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow…
  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
  • v. (intransitive) To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
  • v. (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
  • v. (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

exist

  • v. to be; have existence; have being or reality.

falsehood

  • n. (uncountable) The property of being false.
  • n. (countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
  • n. (archaic, rare) Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.

falsity

  • n. (countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
  • n. (uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.

misinform

  • v. (transitive) to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information.

mislead

  • v. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
  • v. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
  • v. To deceptively trick into something wrong.
  • v. To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

place

  • n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
  • n. A location or position in space.
  • n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
  • n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
  • n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
  • n. A frame of mind.
  • n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  • n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
  • n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  • n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
  • n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
  • n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
  • v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
  • v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
  • v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
  • v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
  • v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
  • v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

  • n. A place or location.
  • n. A post of employment; a job.
  • n. A status or rank.
  • n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  • n. A posture.
  • n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  • n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
  • n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
  • v. To put into place.

prevarication

  • n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
  • n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

rest

  • n. (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
  • n. (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
  • n. (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
  • n. (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state…
  • n. (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
  • n. (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
  • n. (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
  • n. (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
  • n. (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the…
  • n. (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
  • n. A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
  • n. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
  • n. (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
  • n. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals…
  • n. (dated) A set or game at tennis.
  • v. (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without…
  • v. (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
  • v. (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, reflexive) To be or to put into a state of rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding,…
  • v. (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
  • v. (intransitive) To lie dormant.
  • v. (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
  • v. (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
  • v. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
  • n. (uncountable) That which remains.
  • n. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
  • n. (Britain, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the…
  • v. (obsolete) To remain.
  • v. (obsolete) To arrest.

untruth

  • n. A lie or falsehood.
  • n. The condition of being false; truthlessness.

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