Word Meanings - LIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIE)

• Attitude
• Posture
• position
• situation
• standing
• composition
• collocation
• aspect
• pose
• lie
• Cheat
• Deception
• fraud
• imposition
• trick
• artifice
• illusion
• imposture
• swindle
• finesse
• deceit
• fiction
• Falsehood
• Untruth
• error
• fallacy
• sophistry
• deception
• forgery
• cheat
• Lurk
• Hide
• skulk
• abscond
• lie hid
• lie in wait
• Recline
• Lean
• slope
• rest
• repose

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer

Related words: (words related to LIE)

• ABSCOND
  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• TRICKING
  Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• COLLOCATION
  The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• ILLUSIONIST
  One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.