Lying

Quick meaning: Lying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).

Meaning

present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).

More Meanings

1. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
2. present participle and gerund of lie (“to intentionally give false information”)
3. An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.
4. Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious
5. simple past and past participle of lye

Example Sentences

Gloster: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom.

1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al. But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward.

Sly: Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom.

Word Forms

• lyings
• lyinger
• lyingest

Synonyms for lying

Depending on context, synonyms include mendacious, prevarication, fabrication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prevarication, mendacious, untruthful, fabrication, cover-up, resting.

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