Thesaurus:lie

THESAURUS

lie

English

Noun

Sense: intentionally false statement

Synonyms

• anti-fact
• bluff
• bollocks
• bullshit    [⇒ thesaurus]
• canard
• cap (AAVE and internet slang)
• chin (UK, slang)
• clanker
• contradiction
• cram (dated, UK, slang)
• fabrication
• falsehood    [⇒ thesaurus]
• falsification
• fib
• flam
• goof
• hoax
• hummer (obsolete, slang)
• inveracity
• inverity
• jive (dated)
• lie
• mendacity
• mistruth
• nonsense    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nontruth
• pork pie (Cockney rhyming slang)
• porker (UK, slang)
• porky (Cockney rhyming slang)
• prevarication
• rubbish
• swack-up (dated, UK, slang)
• tall tale
• untruism
• untruth
• whopper
• wisker (archaic, UK, slang)
• yanker (UK, dialect)
• yed (UK, dialect)

Antonyms

• fact
• truth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• verity

Hyponyms

• barefaced lie
• big lie
• butler lie
• contextomy
• half-truth
• noble lie
• obfuscation
• white lie

Meronyms

• deception    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pack of lies
• perjury

Various

• the cake is a lie (Internet)
• cry wolf
• give the lie to
• a lie has no legs
• lie through one's teeth

• I tell a lie

See also

• Thesaurus:decoy
• Thesaurus:fake
• Thesaurus:imitate
• Thesaurus:nonsense

Further reading

• “falsehood” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “untruth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “lie” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.