false witness

Questions about false witness

What is another word for false witness?

It depends which false witness you mean. In the sense “a person who deliberately gives false testimony”, the synonyms are perjurer. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of false witness?

WordNet records no antonym for false witness. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for false witness come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of false witness

• Full entry for false witnessAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for false witnessWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.