prevarication

1. 1.

   a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

   Synonymslie

   Broaderfalsehood

   Narrowerfibjactitationwhopperwhite lie
2. 2.

   intentionally vague or ambiguous

   Synonymsequivocationevasiveness

   Broaderuntruthfulnessambiguity
3. 3.

   the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

   Synonymslyingfabrication

   Broaderfalsification

   Narrowerfibbing

Other forms of prevarication

plural

prevarications·

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 prevarication

What does prevarication mean?

prevarication means "a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prevarication?

prevarication has 5 syllables: pre-var-i-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /pɹəˌvɛɹəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for prevarication?

Close synonyms include lie, equivocation, evasiveness, lying, fabrication. 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 prevarication a common word?

prevarication 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.

What rhymes with prevarication?

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