Synonyms of fibs

fibs 1 of 3

noun

plural of fib

as in lies

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

the claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lies
• tales
• stories
• falsehoods
• untruths
• prevarications
• fabrications
• whoppers
• fables
• fairy tales
• falsities
• mendacities
• distortions
• exaggerations
• ambiguities
• half-truths
• fictions
• taradiddles
• slanders
• equivocations
• libels
• deceits
• defamations
• obliquities
• perjuries
• bluffs
• nonsense
• dishonesties
• misstatements
• myths
• fallacies
• misrepresentations
• misconceptions
• duplicities
• falsifications
• misinformation
• pretenses
• fraudulences
• canards
• poses
• humbug
• misreports
• jives

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truths
• facts
• verities
• truisms
• confirmations
• verifications
• validations
• substantiations
• honesties
• veracities
• authentications

fibs

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of fib

as in prevaricates

to make a statement one knows to be untrue

fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lies
• prevaricates
• deceives
• tricks
• kids
• fabricates
• perjures
• fools
• slanders
• libels
• deludes
• equivocates
• dupes
• hoodwinks
• fudges
• forswears
• misstates
• gulls
• snows
• misrepresents
• falsifies
• hoaxes
• misleads
• defames
• distorts
• misreports
• beguiles
• misinforms
• dissembles
• garbles
• palters
• dissimulates
• cozens
• takes in
• traduces
• misguides

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• asserts
• testifies
• swears
• confirms
• validates
• verifies
• substantiates
• authenticates

fibs

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of fib, British

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• hides
• pounds
• lashes
• slaps
• attacks
• beats
• whips
• assaults
• punches
• hits
• knocks
• pelts
• thumps
• spanks
• does
• slams
• batters
• chops
• smashes
• mauls
• bashes
• bats
• belabors
• wounds
• buffets
• paddles
• tans
• slates
• boxes
• clubs
• raids
• smacks
• punches out
• wallops
• works over
• curries
• laces
• bastes
• hammers
• whales
• storms
• switches
• drubs
• belts
• flogs
• pummels
• lambastes
• whacks
• thrashes
• threshes
• swipes
• roughs (up)
• bludgeons
• lathers
• whops
• swats
• whups
• slogs
• tromps
• messes (up)
• bungs up
• socks
• beats up on
• pastes
• birches
• cracks
• clouts
• rushes
• pommels
• descends (on or upon)
• whams
• lams
• cuffs
• thwacks
• jumps (on)
• straps
• lacerates
• busts
• besets
• assails
• flagellates
• clobbers
• lays on
• cudgels
• gores
• canes
• pistol-whips
• scourges
• leathers
• mangles
• pounces (on or upon)
• whomps
• maims
• fustigates
• rawhides
• blackjacks
• cowhides
• mutilates
• horsewhips

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fibs

Noun

Increasingly, human resources departments noticed that applicants used the résumé to tell white lies, and even bigger fibs, listing fictitious degrees, fake promotions and other embellishments. — Stephen Mihm, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026

Her other fibs may be humorous, but the film never mocks her. — Fred Topel, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025

These are the silly, inconsequential fibs that affect them and no one else and become an issue only when they get called out by the other ladies. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025

That meant Morgan and Ashley would face off in the third and final stage of the HOH competition, in which the contestants had to play a game of two truths and a lie, figuring out which statements from jury members about their time in the house were fibs. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025