Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)
- (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- (of a statement, etc) False or untrue.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:untrue
Translations
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lying, untruthful or dishonest
- Afrikaans: leunagtig, oneerlik, liegend
- Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib)
- Armenian: ստախոս (hy) (staxos), սուտասան (hy) (sutasan)
- Bulgarian: лъжлив (bg) (lǎžliv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 說謊的／说谎的 (zh) (shuōhuǎng de)
- Czech: prolhaný (cs)
- Dutch: leugenachtig (nl), oneerlijk (nl), liegend (nl)
- Finnish: valheellinen (fi)
- French: fallacieux (fr), mensonger (fr), trompeur (fr) m
- Georgian: ცრუ (cru)
- German: lügnerisch (de), verlogen (de), unwahr (de)
- Greek: αναληθής (el) (analithís)
- Ancient: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos)
- Hebrew: שקרן, לא ישר
- Hungarian: hazug (hu), hazudozó (hu)
- Italian: mendace (it), menzognero (it) m, bugiardo (it) m
- Japanese: 虚偽の (ja) (きょぎの, kyogi no), 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
- Latin: mendax (la)
- Portuguese: mentiroso (pt), mendaz (pt)
- Romanian: mincinos (ro)
- Russian: лжи́вый (ru) (lžívyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ла̀жљив
- Roman: làžljiv (sh)
- Spanish: mentiroso (es), embustero (es), mendaz (es)
- Swedish: lögnaktig (sv), förljugen (sv)
- Ukrainian: брехли́вий (uk) (brexlývyj)
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