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- pronunciation:
- laI
 r
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition: |
a person who tells lies instead of the truth.
She suspected that he was a liar.- similar words:
- fibber, slanderer, storyteller
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The words liar and lyre sound alike but have different meanings. To find out why a music teacher would rather have a lyre in class than a liar, look up lyre.
The word liar
contains the following part:
-er, -or, -ar2
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means a person or thing that does
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -er
, -or
, -ar2 turns verbs into agent nouns.
Example words:
actor, administrator, builder, batter3, beggar, broiler, burglar, captor, carrier, censor, cleaner, commissioner, computer, consumer, container, dancer, diner, director, doctor, driver, employer, farmer, freezer, liar, manager, motor, painter1, pitcher2, player, potter, preacher, razor, refrigerator, reporter, runner, sailor, sculptor, seller, singer, speaker, survivor, teacher, tractor, user, vendor, washer, worker, writer
- synonyms:
- -ist, -ite2, -ator, -an, -ian, -ean
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