Definition for Fib:

• ( Tell) trivial or venial lie. Hence fibber, fibster, nn.

Synonyms for Fib:

• n.

  •
  • a tissue of lies,
  • half-truth,
  • misinformation.
  •
  • manufacture,
  • deceive,
  • prevarication,
  • true,
  • bend the truth,
  • mislead,
  • concoct,
  • whopper,
  • make up.
  •communication (noun)
  • tarradiddle,
  • fib,
  • taradiddle.
  •deception (noun)
  • feint,
  • Illusions,
  • chicanes,
  • chicane,
  • fast one,
  • jive,
  • hogwash,
  • fast shuffle,
  • mare's-nest,
  • coverup,
  • jives.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • dissimulation,
  • tergiversation,
  • double meaning,
  • amphibology,
  • deceptiveness,
  • fibbing,
  • evasion,
  • shufflings,
  • quibbling routine,
  • runaround,
  • equivocality.
  •fable (noun)
  • one for bird,
  • old chestnuts,
  • un truths,
  • one for birds,
  • un-truth,
  • tall stories,
  • un-truths,
  • one for the bird,
  • un truth,
  • old saws.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • falseness,
  • fakery,
  • fibbery,
  • feigning,
  • half truth,
  • mis-statement,
  • half truths,
  • perjury,
  • Untruism,
  • fallaciousness.
  •falsity (noun)
  • in accuracies,
  • in-accuracy,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • in-sincerity,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • un-realities,
  • in accuracy,
  • doubledealing,
  • un-candidness,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • in-fidelity,
  • in-fidelities,
  • fraudulences,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • un candidnesses,
  • un realities,
  • in sincerity,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • in sincerities,
  • un candidness,
  • in-sincerities,
  • in fidelity,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un-reality,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • un faithfulness,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • in fidelities,
  • un reality.
  •fiction (noun)
  • cliff hangers,
  • terminological inexactitudes,
  • storytellings,
  • cliff hanger,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • work imagination,
  • figment imagination.
  •prevarication (noun)
  • white lie.
  •story (noun)
  • cock and bull story.
  •undetailed lie (noun)
  • fairy tale,
  • crock,
  • spinach,
  • jazz,
  • untruth,
  • yarn,
  • untruthfulness,
  • line,
  • mendacity,
  • evasiveness.
  •untruth (noun)
  • balderdash,
  • fallacy,
  • rubbish,
  • malarkey,
  • rot,
  • baloney.

• v.

  •equivocate (verb)
  • clouded the issue,
  • doubletalk,
  • clouded issue,
  • sat on fence,
  • clouding the issue,
  • begged the question,
  • gives run around,
  • tells white lie,
  • telling white lie,
  • running around,
  • beating around bush,
  • clouds the issue,
  • cop plea,
  • sitting the fence,
  • double-talked,
  • begging question,
  • sate on fence,
  • double talked,
  • cloud issue,
  • sitting fence,
  • giving run around,
  • gave run around,
  • sits on the fence,
  • pass buck,
  • sits the fence,
  • flipflopping,
  • flip flopping,
  • runs around,
  • double talking,
  • beg question,
  • flip-flopped,
  • blow hot cold,
  • clouds issue,
  • mincing words,
  • tergiversing,
  • flip flop,
  • tergiversed,
  • sat the fence,
  • begs the question,
  • flipflopped,
  • sits fence,
  • double-talking,
  • begged question,
  • ran around,
  • sit fence,
  • hem haw,
  • sate fence,
  • beats around bush,
  • sat on the fence,
  • flip flopped,
  • beats around the bush,
  • doubletalking,
  • sitting on the fence,
  • sate the fence,
  • doubletalked,
  • told white lie,
  • tergiverses,
  • minces words,
  • sate on the fence,
  • sit the fence,
  • sits on fence,
  • clouding issue,
  • sat fence,
  • begs question,
  • sitting on fence.
  •fabricate (verb)
  • de-vising,
  • de-vised,
  • mis-represents,
  • trumping up,
  • makes like,
  • mis representing,
  • de vise,
  • mis represented,
  • pre tend,
  • mis-represented,
  • de vised,
  • mis represents,
  • making like,
  • pre tends,
  • mis-representing,
  • de vising,
  • pre-tended,
  • pre-tending,
  • made like,
  • de-vise,
  • pre tending,
  • mis-represent,
  • pre-tends,
  • mis represent,
  • trumps up.
  •falsify (verb)
  • dis tort,
  • fourflushing,
  • pro-moting,
  • mis-state,
  • be-lying,
  • dis-tort,
  • dis torts,
  • mis-quoting,
  • mis quoting,
  • fourflushed,
  • framing up,
  • faked it,
  • four flushed,
  • deaconing,
  • co-oking,
  • dis-torts,
  • pro-motes,
  • fourflush,
  • mis stating,
  • be-lied,
  • four-flushed,
  • be lying,
  • mis-quote,
  • phonies up,
  • be lied,
  • mis states,
  • frames up,
  • four flushing,
  • put act,
  • mis-quotes,
  • mis state,
  • co oking,
  • mis-stated,
  • mis quote,
  • mis-states,
  • phonying up,
  • mis-stating,
  • mis quoted,
  • mis quotes,
  • put an act,
  • faking it,
  • mis stated,
  • fourflushes,
  • pro-mote,
  • pro moting,
  • deaconed,
  • mis-quoted,
  • phonied up,
  • co oked,
  • four flushes,
  • co-oked,
  • fakes it,
  • four-flushes.
  •tell an undetailed lie (verb)
  • promote,
  • speak with forked tongue,
  • create fiction,
  • plant,
  • shovel,
  • tell a little white lie,
  • stretch the truth.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • fish story.
  •
  • misstatement,
  • misrepresentation,
  • tall tale,
  • perjure.
  •equivocate
  • cover up,
  • run around,
  • begging the question,
  • tell white lie,
  • flipflop,
  • jiving,
  • beat around the bush,
  • covers up,
  • cloud the issue,
  • beat around bush,
  • pussyfoot,
  • beating around the bush,
  • jived,
  • give run around,
  • beg the question,
  • quibble,
  • minced words,
  • sit on fence,
  • covered up,
  • Parried,
  • flip-flopping,
  • mince words,
  • sit on the fence,
  • covering up,
  • tergiverse.
  •palter
  • haggle.

Paraphrases for Fib:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    polyester.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    IFF.
  • Proper noun, singular
    IFF.

Antonyms for Fib:

• n.

  • undetailed lie
    non-fiction, directness, truth.
  • Other antonyms:
    honesty.

• v.

  • tell an undetailed lie
    be honest, tell truth.

Fib Sentence Examples:

• " I want you to fib for me," she said.

• This was not exactly a fib on the part of the professor because he was thinking of it.

Homophones for Fib:

• fe, F, fey, fa, FAA, fauve, feb 2, fee, fbi, few, feb, fifo, fife, fob off, fop, fob, foe, Fo, fovea, five, fao, FAE, fha, fab, Fay, fief, feoff.

Hypernym for Fib:

• n.

  • communication
    fairy tale, song and dance, fairytale, cock-and-bull story, fairy story.

Hyponym for Fib:

• n.

  • communication
    lie, prevarication.

• v.

  • communication
    lie.