mendacious
/mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
mendacious adjective: lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Adjective
mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)
- Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- He was dismissed as a mendacious witness.
- False or untrue.
- mendacious propaganda
- utterly mendacious
- Synonyms:
- bastard, counterfactual, erroneous, fallacious, false, off, counterfeit, fictitious, inaccurate, incorrect
mendacious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
mendacious in Tamil
- பொய் சொல்லும், பொய்யான, புளுகும், உண்மையற்ற
mendacious in Urdu
- دھوکے باز, جھوٹا, کاذب, پرفریب
mendacious in Bengali
- মিথ্যাবাদী, অসত্যে পূর্ণ
mendacious in Malayalam
- dishonest, lying, untruthful
- കള്ള, കള്ളം പറയുന്ന, കള്ളം പറയുന്ന സ്വഭാവമുള്ള, ആനൃത, കള്ളം പറയുന്ന ശീലമുള്ള, നുണപറയുന്ന
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- mendacious in Kannada
- ಸುಳ್ಳಾದ
- mendacious in Arabic
- كَاذِب kāḏib
Synonyms of mendacious
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Forms of mendacious
| comparative | more mendacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most mendacious |
Origin of mendacious
Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”), + -ious.
Words formed from mendacious
Words that rhyme with mendacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about mendacious
- What does mendacious mean?
- Mendacious means lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- What is mendacious in Tamil?
- Mendacious in Tamil is பொய் சொல்லும், பொய்யான, புளுகும். See Mendacious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mendacious?
- Mendacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce mendacious?
- Mendacious is pronounced /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/.
Words near mendacious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mendacious (page history and authors); mendacious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mendacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mendacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mendacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); mendacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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