Liar

Noun

 * 1) one who tells lies.

Adjectives for Liar
compulsive; chronic; congenial; excessive; famous; pathological; double faced; double-tongued; big fat; sociopathic; false-hearted; designing; monstrous; virtuous; probable; political; prophesying; beneficent; notorious; endless; generous; white.

Verbs for Liar
accuse—; avoid—; condemn—; criticize—; despise—; judge—; punish—; reprimand—; reproach—; shame—; spurn—; support—; —beguiles; —blinds; —contrives; —convinces; —deceives; —devises; —forges; — fumbles; —invents; —libels; —raves; '—relates; —slanders; —stabs; —violates.

Thesaurus
Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, mythomaniac, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer, prevaricator, pseudologist, pseudologue, spinner of yarns, storyteller, teller of tales, yarn spinner, yarner

Etymology
From lier:, from  leogere:, from leogan:, equivalent to. Cognate with lygari:. More at.

Translations

 * Arabic: (kāðeb)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Chinese: 说谎者 (shuōhuǎngzhě)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: løgner
 * Dutch: leugenaar, leugenaarster
 * Esperanto: mensogulo
 * Ewe: aʋatsokala
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ψεύτης, ψεύτρα
 * Hebrew: שקרן (shakran), שקרנית (shakranit)
 * Hindi: झूठा (jhūṭhā)
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 嘘つき (usótsuki)
 * Korean: 거짓말장이 (geojitmaljang-i)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: mendax, falsus
 * Lithuanian:


 * Macedonian: лажго, лажливец
 * Maltese: giddieb
 * Manx: breagerey, breageyder
 * Norwegian: løgner, løgnhals
 * Old French:
 * Polish:, , kłamczuch
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, mincinoasă
 * Russian: лгун, лжец, врун, враль
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: лажов, лажљивац
 * Roman: lažov, lažljivac
 * Sicilian: mbrugghiuni, trastularu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అబద్ధాలకోరు (abaddhaalakOru)
 * Turkish: yalancı
 * Urdu: (jhūṭhā)
 * Welsh: celwyddgi

Anagrams

 * aril, lair, lari, lira, rail, rial

Verb

 * 1) to bind, to tie.
 * 2)  to deceive.
 * 3) to wrap, to wrap up

Etymology
From ligare:, present active infinitive of ligo:.

Derived terms

 * lío