liar

Other forms of liar

plural

liars·

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 liar

What does liar mean?

liar means "a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly".

How many syllables are in liar?

liar has 2 syllables: li-ar. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪɚ/.

What is another word for liar?

Close synonyms include prevaricator. 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.

What is the opposite of liar?

The recorded antonyms are square shooter.

Is liar a common word?

liar is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.