belie

Other forms of belie

past tense

belied·

present participle

belying

third person

belies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about belie

What does belie mean?

belie means "be in contradiction with". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in belie?

belie has 2 syllables: be-lie. The stress falls on "lie". In IPA it is /bɪˈlaɪ/.

What is another word for belie?

Close synonyms include contradict, negate, misrepresent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is belie a common word?

belie is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with belie?

8 words rhyme with belie. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.