mendacious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

mendacious (comparative more mendacious, superlative most mendacious)

(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
(of a statement, etc) False or untrue.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:untrue

Translations

lying, untruthful or dishonest

Afrikaans: leunagtig, oneerlik, liegend
Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib)
Armenian: ստախոս (hy) (staxos), սուտասան (hy) (sutasan)
Bulgarian: лъжлив (bg) (lǎžliv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 說謊的／说谎的 (zh) (shuōhuǎng de)
Czech: prolhaný (cs)
Dutch: leugenachtig (nl), oneerlijk (nl), liegend (nl)
Finnish: valheellinen (fi)
French: fallacieux (fr), mensonger (fr), trompeur (fr) m
Georgian: ცრუ (cru)
German: lügnerisch (de), verlogen (de), unwahr (de)
Greek: αναληθής (el) (analithís)
Ancient: ψευδολόγος (pseudológos)
Hebrew: שקרן, לא ישר
Hungarian: hazug (hu), hazudozó (hu)
Italian: mendace (it), menzognero (it) m, bugiardo (it) m
Japanese: 虚偽の (ja) (きょぎの, kyogi no), 不正直 (ふしょうじき, fushōjiki)
Latin: mendax (la)
Portuguese: mentiroso (pt), mendaz (pt)
Romanian: mincinos (ro)
Russian: лжи́вый (ru) (lžívyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ла̀жљив

Roman: làžljiv (sh)
Spanish: mentiroso (es), embustero (es), mendaz (es)
Swedish: lögnaktig (sv), förljugen (sv)
Ukrainian: брехли́вий (uk) (brexlývyj)

false — see false

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