mendacious

1. 1.

   given to lying

   “a mendacious child”

   Similaruntruthful
2. 2.

   intentionally untrue

   “a mendacious statement”

   Similarfalse

Questions about mendacious

What does mendacious mean?

mendacious means "given to lying". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mendacious?

mendacious has 3 syllables: men-da-cious. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/.

Is mendacious a common word?

mendacious 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.