Dictionary Entry
lie
lie is a 3-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Lye. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See Lye.
- 2noun
A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
- 3noun
A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
- 4noun
Anything which misleads or disappoints.
- 5intransitive verb
To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
- 6adjective
To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
- 7adjective
To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.
- 8adjective
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
- 9adjective
To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
- 10adjective
To lodge; to sleep.
- 11adjective
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- 12adjective
To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- 13noun
The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.
- 14noun
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
Synonyms
- 15noun
position or manner in which something is situated
- 16noun
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
- 17verb
tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
"Don't lie to your parents"
"She lied when she told me she was only 29"
- 18verb
be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
"The sick man lay in bed all day"
"the books are lying on the shelf"
- 19verb
assume a reclining position
"lie down on the bed until you feel better"
- 20verb
originate (in)
"The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
- 21verb
be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- 22verb
have a place in relation to something else
"The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"
"The responsibility rests with the Allies"
Synonyms
- 23verb
be and remain in a particular state or condition
"lie dormant"
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