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Definition: Liar |
LiarNoun1. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "liar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Liar \Li"ar\ (l[imac]"[~e]r), noun. [from Old English expression liere. See Lie to falsify.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Liar MIT Scheme. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose faith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward. For some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations through deceitful persons. For a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming conduct is likely to lose her a valued friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Liar (The). Al Aswad, who set himself up as a prophet against Mahomet. He was called the Weathercock because he changed his creed so often, the Impostor, and the Liar. Moseilma, another contemporary, who affirmed that the "belly is the seat of the soul." He wrote to Mahomet, and began his letter: "From Moseilma, prophet of Allah, to Mahomet, prophet of Allah," and received for answer a letter beginning thus: "From Mahomet the prophet of God, to Moseilma the Liar." (Anglo-Saxon, leog-an, to tell a falsehood; but to be recumbent is lieg-an or lig-an. Prince of Liars. Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portuguese traveller, whose narrative is so much after Munchausen's style, that Cervantes dubbed him "Prince of Liars." The Tatler called him a man "of infinite adventure and unbounded imagination." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495, one of several roads sharing that designation) extends the length of Long Island. It begins in New York City, at the eastern end of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and runs through Queens and into Nassau and Suffolk counties, ending just before the "fish-tail" (where the island splits into northern and southern forks). Smaller highways continue on from the end of the LIE to Greenport on the North Fork and past the Hamptons to Montauk on the South Fork. Cynics have suggested that the acronym is appropriate, in that the term "expressway" is a lie.In 1999, an HOV lane was added from Deer Park to (near) Hicksville. A movie called "L.I.E." was also made.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
To lie is to make statements that are untrue, whether or not the falsity of such statements is known by the speaker. A lie can be a genuine falsehood or a selective truth, a lie by omission, or even the truth if the intention is to deceive or to cause an action not in the listener's interests.
Morality of lying
Lying is against the moral standards of many people and is specifically prohibited as a sin in many religions. Ethical traditions and philosopers are divided over whether a lie is ever allowable but are generally opposed - Aristotle said no, Plato said yes, Saint Augustine said no, Kant said no.
Lying in a way that escalates rather than de-escalates a conflict is usually considered the worst sin.
A liar is a person who is known to have a tendency to tell lies. People's tolerance for liars is generally very small, and it is often only necessary to be caught lying once to be labelled as a liar and not trusted again. This is of course moderated by the importance of the matter being lied about.
Paradoxically, a big lie is often easier to get people to believe, and more difficult for them to challenge even when facts support it. Propaganda is often based on choosing some very large but comfortable lie which is hard to challenge for social status or other reasons - and spreading this throughout a whole society.
Etiquette of lying
Etiquette is largely concerned with questions of lying, blaming and hypocrisy - things often decried in ethics but of great utility in society:
The moral reasons to tolerate lies have mostly to do with avoiding conflict. An ethical code will often specify when the truth is required, and when not. In courtrooms, for instance, the adversarial process and standard of evidence that applies restricts questions so that the need for a witness to lie is reduced - thus the truth on the matter at hand is supposed to be more easily revealed.
The need to sometimes lie is recognized in the term white lie (or officious lie), where the lie is harmless, and there are circumstances where there is an expectation to be less than totally honest through necessity or pragmatism. Lies can be divided into classes - injurious or malicious, officious, and jocose, of which only the first class is serious (Catholicism classes the first as a mortal sin but also condemns the others as venial).
Paradox of lying
Lying is the subject of many paradoxes, the most famous one being known as the liar paradox, commonly expressed as "This sentence is a lie," or "This sentence is false." The so-called Epimenides paradox -- "All Cretans are liars," as stated by Epimenides the Cretan -- is a forerunner of this, though its status as a paradox is disputed. A class of related logic puzzles are known as knights and knaves, in which the goal is to determine who of a group of people is lying and who is telling the truth.
Much ethical dilemma is based on related ethical paradox on issues of lying. Some famous ones include the question of whether anyone, hiding refugees from an oppressive and racist government, might owe the truth to an official who comes asking where they are.
Psychology of lying
The capacity of hominids to lie is noted early and nearly universally in human development and language studies with Great Apes. One famous lie by the latter was when Koko the Gorilla, confronted by her handlers after a tantrum in which she had literally torn a steel sink out of its moorings, signed in American Sign Language, "cat did it", pointing at her tiny kitten. It is unclear if this was a joke or a genuine attempt at blaming her tiny pet.
Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the theory of mind which people employ to simulate another's reaction to their story and determine if a lie will be believable. The most commonly cited milestone in the rising of this, what is known as Machiavellian intelligence, is at the human age of about four and a half years, when children begin to be able to lie convincingly. Before this, they seem simply unable to comprehend that anyone doesn't see the same view of events that they do - and seem to assume that there is only one point of view - their own - that must be integrated into any given story.
Sociology and linguistics of lying
Lying and blaming are so basic to society that it is hard to formally study them. George Lakoff, in criticizing some claims of George W. Bush made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, notes that "Are they lies - or are they merely exaggerations, misleading statements, mistakes, rhetorical excesses and so on. Linguists study such matters. The most startling finding is that, in considering whether a statement is a lie, the least important consideration for most people is whether it is true! The more important considerations are, Did he believe it? Did he intend to deceive? Was he trying to gain some advantage or to harm someone else? Is it a serious matter, or a trivial one? Is it "just" a matter of political rhetoric? Most people will grant that, even if the statement happened to be false, if he believed it, wasn't trying to deceive, and was not trying to gain advantage or harm any one, then there was no lie. If it was a lie in the service of a good cause, then it was a white lie. If it was based on faulty information, then it was an honest mistake. If it was just there for emphasis, then it was an exaggeration."
"These have been among the administration's defenses. The good cause: liberating Iraq. The faulty information: from the CIA. The emphasis: enthusiasm for a great cause. Even though there is evidence that the President and his advisers knew the information was false, they can deflect the use of the L-word. The falsehoods have been revealed and they, in themselves, do not matter much to most people."
The philosopher Leo Strauss, who had a major influence on many of the figures in the Project for a New American Century who dominated the administration during this period, stressed the necessity of lying in order to conceal a strategic position, or to aid diplomacy. So did earlier figures in political philosophy back to Niccolo Machiavelli.
It seems extremely unlikely that lies will ever be entirely eliminated from politics or diplomacy, just as they cannot be removed from the warfare that these activities are, ultimately, supposed to help pre-empt.
Lies and trust
One reason that lying may persist as a strategy in social settings is that it is not the comparison of the facts against some abstract notion of truth, but rather, the assessment of whether or not a betrayal of trust has occurred, that determines the response to a lie.
In the case of the Iraq war, for instance, the fact that lies escalated a conflict may have made it a quite serious breach of trust and betrayal of those who would suffer in that conflict. However, anyone who accepts as true the assertion that the regime in place was an inevitable threat to those who perished fighting it, or whose lives are at risk in the aftermath of the invasion, would be far less likely to consider escalating the conflict at the most convenient time to be any kind of betrayal. The perspective of the common sense conservative quite often relies on this kind of assumption of certainty. But if conflicts that are to be escalated are chosen due to some ideology, it is hard to see how this differs from simple might makes right logic.
See also: The Boy who cried Wolf, Prisoner's dilemma
Lie or lie down also means to rest horizontally on a surface, such as a bed. See Human positions.
Lie (pronounced as "Lee") is also a family name. Notable persons with this lastname including Sophus Lie, the founder of Lie algebra.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lie."
Synonym: LiarSynonym: prevaricator (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: square shooter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder. |
Falsehood | Verb: be false; Adjective:, be a liar; speak falsely; adVerb: tell a lie; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Liar |
| English words defined with "liar": Ananias ♦ Gabber ♦ Leaser ♦ Pseudologist ♦ slippery ♦ tricky. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "liar": Bomba, Bu lai ya ♦ Countercheck Quarrelsome ♦ DIPLOMAT, Duresley ♦ Encomiast ♦ FIB ♦ IMAGINATION, IMPROBABILITY, INHABITANT ♦ liar paradox, Lie Direct ♦ MINE ♦ Parolles, Peter Peebles, Prevaricator ♦ recursive acronym ♦ Scode, Sychar ♦ Weather. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "liar": Warlock. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Liar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (wild), Romansch (to tie), Spanish (attach, bind, bundle, connect, do up, fasten, foul up, join, ligate, link, roll, tie, tie back, tie together, tie up, truss, wrap up). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well aren't you just a big fat liar! (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) You liar! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) You're a good liar. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) He'sa liar. (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) Yeah I know, but I'm a terrible liar. (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) | |
Lyrics | Then I would be a liar (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC) You know that I would be a liar ("Light My Fire"; performing artist: The Doors) | |
Clever | The biggest liar you'll ever have to deal with probably watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Liar (2002) Billy Liar (1973) Liar! (1969) The Lady Is a Liar (1968) Billy Liar (1963) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The traitor, the thief, the liar, the murderess, the criminal sits there. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The enemy's liar at work -- don't help him!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Success has always been a great liar. |
John Huss | Condemned at the Council -- "See how these Bishops expect me to abjure: yet I fear to do so, lest I be a liar in the sight of the Lord." |
Pierre Corneille | A liar is full of oaths. |
Quintilian | A liar should have a good memory. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. |
Samuel Butler | The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. |
William Shenstone | A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gennifer Flowers | Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of. |
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| "Liar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.64% of the time. "Liar" is used about 357 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.64% | 320 | 16,119 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.28% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 357 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "liar". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Achzib | N/A | Biblical | Liar |
| Cozbi | N/A | Biblical | A liar |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "liar": a big liar ♦ an accomplished liar ♦ an unmitigated liar ♦ best liar ♦ bloody liar ♦ compulsive liar ♦ confirmed liar ♦ have become a hopeless liar ♦ he is a damned liar ♦ liar paradox ♦ no one can trust a liar. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "liar": denser-liar. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
liar | 231 | jakob the liar | 13 |
liar liar | 228 | liar lie lying tell them who | 11 |
pathological liar | 188 | boy cheat chick hot liar | 11 |
big fat liar | 148 | billy liar | 10 |
compulsive liar | 79 | anonymous liar | 10 |
liar liar tierney | 67 | liar liar pants on fire | 10 |
liar club | 36 | chronic liar | 10 |
big fat liar soundtrack | 34 | detecting liar | 10 |
liar poker | 30 | liar liar script | 9 |
cast liar liar | 26 | liar poem | 9 |
habitual liar | 24 | bird liar | 9 |
boy cheat liar | 23 | liar radio tv young | 8 |
liar liar movie | 21 | liar pathological symptom | 8 |
bush liar | 20 | definition liar pathological | 8 |
liar spot | 20 | jacob the liar | 8 |
liar pathalogical | 19 | liar man | 8 |
liar dice | 18 | big boy cheat disgrace liar re such they | 8 |
liar lyrics | 17 | liar liar quote | 7 |
big fat liar movie | 17 | dragon liar | 7 |
liar quote | 16 | club liar tampa | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "liar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrenacak (fibber, fibster, fiction-monger, storyteller), gënjeshtar (artist, bouncer, deceiver, double dealing, double-dealer, fibber, mendacious). (various references) | |
Arabic | الكذوب, الكذابة, الكذاب (bouncing, cracker, storyteller), المميس, المخادع (artist, fraud, illusionist, knave, rook, trickster, wind cheater), الأ فاك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лъжец (fabulist, phoney, phony, prevaricator). (various references) | |
Chinese | 說謊者 , 说谎者. (various references) | |
Czech | lhář (fibber, fibster). (various references) | |
Farsi | کذاب , کاذب , دروغگو (False). (various references) | |
Finnish | valehtelija. (various references) | |
French | menteur. (various references) | |
German | lügner (belier, beliers, liars). (various references) | |
Greek | ψέστησ, ψεύτησ (storyteller), ψεύτης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שקרן (prevaricator), כזבן (mendacious), "ובר כזב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hazudozó (mendacious, opiate-monger, storyteller). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penipu (duper, mountebank, pretender, two timer), pendusta, pembohong (fib, pretender, rook), dajal (deceiver, irreligious person). (various references) | |
Italian | bugiardo (dishonest, lying). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 偽り者 (impostor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うそつき (fibber), にせもの (counterfeit, forgery, imitation, imposter, sham, spurious article), いつわりもの (impostor), よたろう (counter-hero, slow witted fellow). (various references) | |
Korean | 거"말쟁이. (various references) | |
Manx | breagerey (romancer, storyteller). (various references) | |
Norwegian | løgner. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iarlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mentiroso (dissembler, double-tongued, fabulist, lying, made-up, mendacious, phoney, romancer, shammer, sklent, truthless, untrue), intrujão (crook, juggler, mendacious, rogue, shark, sharp, sharper, sklent, swindler, trickster), bandoleiro (bandit, gangster, robber, ruffian). (various references) | |
Romanian | mincinos (inventor, lying, mendacious, phony, story teller, tale teller, two faced, two-tongued, untrue). (various references) | |
Russian | лгун (bouncer, fabulist, lear, lier, storyteller). (various references) | |
Scottish | breugair. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lažov (taradiddle), lažljivac (shammer). (various references) | |
Spanish | mentiroso (addicted to lying, bouncer, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, double-tongued, false, fibber, lying, prevaricator, untruthful). (various references) | |
Swedish | lögnare (fabulist, lier). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้โกหก. (various references) | |
Turkish | yalancı (deceitful, fabricator, fabulist, fibber, mendacious, prevaricator, pseudo-, quack, sham, simulator, taleteller, twister, twisty, untruthful), palavracı (blowhard, boaster, bouncer, braggart, gasbag, ranter, romancer, storyteller, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swashbuckling). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalanзy, aldawзy (faker, rascal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | брехун (bouncer, fabulist, fibber). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ nói láo, kẻ nói dối, kẻ nói điêu, kẻ hay nói dối, kẻ hay nói điêu. (various references) | |
Welsh | celwyddwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | lu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh prosqhV toiV logoiV autou ina mh elegxh se kai yeudhV genh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne addas quicquam verbis illius et arguaris inveniarisque mendax |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne adde thou any thing to the wordis of hym; and thou be vndernome, and founde a liere. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Dili ka magdugang sa iyang mga pulong, Tingali unya pagabadlongon ka niya, ug ikaw hikaplagan nga usa ka bakakon. |
| Croatian | Ne dodaji ništa njegovim rijeèima, da te ne prekori i ne smatra lažljivim. |
| Danish | Læg intet til hans Ord, at han ikke skal stemple dig som Løgner. |
| Dutch | Doe niet tot Zijn woorden, opdat Hij u niet bestraffe, en gij leugenachtig bevonden wordt. |
| Finnish | Älä lisää hänen sanoihinsa mitään, ettei hän vaatisi sinua tilille ja ettet valhettelijaksi joutuisi. |
| French | N`ajoute rien ses paroles, De peur qu`il ne te reprenne et que tu ne sois trouvé menteur. |
| German | Tue nichts zu seinen Worten, daß er dich nicht strafe und werdest lügenhaft erfunden. |
| Hungarian | Ne tégy az õ beszédéhez; hogy meg ne feddjen téged, és hazug ne légy. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau engkau menambah apa yang dikatakan-Nya, maka Ia akan menegurmu dan membuktikan bahwa engkau pendusta." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan apalah engkau menambahi firman-Nya dengan barang sesuatu, supaya jangan dihukumkan-Nya engkau dan didapati-Nya akan dikau seorang pembohong. |
| Italian | Non aggiungere nulla alle sue parole, perché non ti riprenda e tu sia trovato bugiardo. |
| Maori | Kaua e tapiritia etahi kupu ki ana, kei riria e ia tou he, a ka kitea koe he tangata korero teka. |
| Norwegian | Legg ikke noget til hans ord, forat han ikke skal straffe dig, og du stå som en løgner! |
| Portuguese | Nada acrescentes s suas palavras, para que ele não te repreenda e tu sejas achado mentiroso. |
| Rumanian | N`adquga nimic la cuvintele Lui, ca sq nu te pedepseascq, wi sq fii gqsit mincinos. - |
| Russian | оЕ ТЙ'БЧМСК Л УМПЧБН еЗП, ЮФП'Щ пО ОЕ П'МЙЮЙМ ФЕ'С, Й ФЩ ОЕ ПЛБЪБМУС МЦЕ"ПН. |
| Spanish | No añadas a sus palabras, no sea que te reprenda, y seas hallado mentiroso. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "liar": liard, liards, liars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "liar": conciliar, familiar, foliar, gangliar, overfamiliar, peculiar, ultrafamiliar, unfamiliar. (additional references) | |
Words containing "liar": auxiliaries, auxiliary, biliary, billiard, billiards, ciliary, conciliarly, domiciliary, familiarise, familiarised, familiarises, familiarising, familiarities, familiarity, familiarization, familiarizations, familiarize, familiarized, familiarizes, familiarizing, familiarly, familiarness, familiarnesses, familiars, galliard, galliards, goliard, goliardic, goliards, halliard, halliards, miliaria, miliarial, miliarias, miliary, milliard, milliards, milliare, milliares, milliaries, milliary, overfamiliarities, overfamiliarity, peculiarities, peculiarity, peculiarly, peculiars, superciliary, unfamiliarities, unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly. (additional references) | |
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"Liar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cliar, clira, elitair, ilr, Iltr, Iluro, ladar, lahr, lai, laif, lairg, lairn, lairt, lairy, laor, lapar, lara, larb, larf, larj, larl, larq, larx, larz, laur, learp, leera, Leira, lera, lerr, leur, Lharc, lia, liai, lian, liara, liat, liau, liax, liaz, Libr, libry, Lidar, lier, liere, liert, lifar, lifr, liiad, likaer, limr, lioar, lior, lipar, Lipara, Lir, lirap, Lirg, lirh, lirj, lirr, Litag, litar, litr, liwa, lixa, lja, llyfr, loar, loarm, lohar, loharu, louar, lpar, Lucar, lufar, lugar, luir, lupara, lura, lyar, lyard, miar, sliar, viar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "liar" (pronounced lī"er) |
| 3 | l ī" er | flier, flyer, plier, supplier. |
| 2 | -ī" er | drier, dryer, Dyer, enquire, acquire, attire, briar, brier, buyer, choir, conspire, crier, desire, dire, entire, Eyer, fire, friar, frier, fryer, higher, hire, mire, misfire, prier, prior, pryer, require, retire, rewire, shier, sire, Spier, tire, transpire, Trier, tyer, wire. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aril, lair, lari, lira, rail, rial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: ail, air, lar, ria. | |
-2 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: argil, ariel, arils, brail, drail, filar, flair, frail, glair, grail, hilar, laari, laird, lairs, laris, liard, liars, libra, lidar, liras, pilar, rails, rials, rival, riyal, trail, trial, urial, viral. | |
+2 letters: aerial, aerily, airily, aldrin, aliner, archil, argali, argils, aridly, ariels, ariled, artily, aswirl, atrial, awhirl, bailer, bailor, brails, brasil, brazil, bridal, burial, carlin, caroli, chiral, citral, curial, derail, dialer, drails, eclair, fairly, ferial, flairs, foliar, frails, frazil, garlic, glaire, glairs, glairy, gloria, grails, hailer, irreal, jailer, jailor, lacier, lairds, laired, lakier, lariat, larine, latria, lazier, liards, librae, libras, lidars, linear, lizard, lorica, mailer, marlin, mitral, nailer, narial, oorali, palier, pillar, primal, racial, racily, radial, railed, railer, ramtil, ratlin, realia, redial, relaid, remail, renail, resail, retail, retial, rhinal, rialto, ribald, rictal, ritual, rivals, riyals, sailer, sailor, serail, serial, spiral, tailer, tailor, trails, trials, tribal, trinal, uracil, urials, urinal, wailer, warily. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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