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Mendacious vs Obfuscate - What's the difference?

mendacious | obfuscate |

As adjectives the difference between mendacious and obfuscate

is that mendacious is (of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest while obfuscate is (obsolete) obfuscated; darkened; obscured.

As a verb obfuscate is

to make dark; overshadow.

mendacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
  • (of a statement etc) False or untrue.

    • obfuscate

    English

    Verb

    (obfuscat)
  • To make dark; overshadow
  • To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
    • Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.
  • (computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
    • We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.

    Synonyms

    * (to make dark) darken, eclipse, overshadow * (to deliberately make more confusing) confuse, muddle, obscure

    Antonyms

    * (to deliberately make less confusing) explain, simplify

    Derived terms

    * obfuscatable * unobfuscatable

    Related terms

    * obfuscation * obfuscatory * obfuscous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.