lying
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Sense: Noun: act of lying
Synonyms:
fibbing, dishonesty, deceit Collocations, untruthfulness, fabrication, telling a lie, telling lies, perjury, prevarication
Antonyms:
telling the truth, being straight, being frank, swearing, truthfulness, taking an oath, keeping a promise
Sense: Adjective: dishonest
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dishonest Collocations, deceitful Collocations, deceptive Collocations, deceiving, mendacious, untruthful, false Collocations, two-faced, double-dealing
Antonyms:
honest Collocations, truthful Collocations, upright Collocations, frank Collocations, loyal Collocations, dependable Collocations, honorable, decent Collocations, sincere Collocations, virtuous, candid
Sense: Adjective: prostrate
Synonyms:
prostrate, prone Collocations, reclining, recumbent, sprawled, horizontal, supine, lying down, laid out, spread out
Antonyms:
upright Collocations, standing Collocations, vertical, upward Collocations, perpendicular, on end, on your feet
lie
WordReference English Thesaurus © 2025
Sense: Noun: untrue statement
Synonyms:
fib , falsehood, untruth, fabrication, untruth, whopper , falsity, porky , barefaced lie, white lie
Antonyms:
truth Collocations, fact Collocations, revelation, authenticity, credibility, accuracy Collocations, the gospel truth, the inside track, the word, nitty-gritty, confession
Sense: Verb: utter an untruth
Synonyms:
fib , tell a lie, be untruthful, stretch the truth, bear false witness, not tell the truth, not speak the truth, say sth untrue, fabricate, prevaricate, be economical with the truth , not tell the whole truth, tell a fib , tell a white lie
Antonyms:
tell the truth, be honest, be sincere, be frank, acknowledge Collocations, expose Collocations, be aboveboard, be straight with, admit Collocations, confess Collocations, come clean , own up, spill the beans, spit it out, put your hands up
Sense: Verb: recline
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recline, lie down, lie back, lean back, stretch out, lay Collocations , lay down , lay back , prostrate yourself, sprawl Collocations
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Sense: Verb: be recumbent
Synonyms:
be recumbent, be reclined, be prostrate, be supine, be prone, be sprawled
Antonyms:
be seated, be standing up, be erect, be upright, be on your feet
Sense: Verb: be positioned
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Antonyms:
no longer exist, be elusive
Sense: Verb: rest on a surface
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