false witness

1. 1.

   a person who deliberately gives false testimony

   Synonymsperjurer

   Broaderliar

Questions about false witness

What does false witness mean?

false witness means "a person who deliberately gives false testimony".

What is another word for false witness?

Close synonyms include perjurer. 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 false witness a common word?

false witness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.