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fiction - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: fiction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: made-up story
Synonyms: anecdote, book, concoction, crock*, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fish story*, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, prevarication, romance, smoke*, tale, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, best seller, cliff-hanger, clothesline, figment of imagination, hooey, potboiler, storytelling, tall story, terminological inexactitude, work of imagination
Antonyms: truth, non-fiction
Main Entry: fable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bunk*, crock*, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story*, hogwash*, invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn, bestiary, fairy story, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, tall story
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: falsehood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, distortion, equivocation, error, fable, fabrication, fallacy, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, fraud, hogwash*, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale*, untruth, whopper*, yarn, dissimulation, erroneousness, fakery, fallaciousness, falseness, feigning, fibbery, half truth, untruism, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: fib
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: undetailed lie
Synonyms: canard, crock*, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale*, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz*, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, story, tale, untruth, white lie*, whopper*, yarn*, spinach, untruthfulness
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: figment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creation in one's mind
Synonyms: bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production
Antonyms: reality
Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, slander, subterfuge, tale, white lie*, whopper, calumniation, disinformation, falseness, falsification, fraudulence, revilement, reviling, tall story, vilification
Antonyms: honesty, truth
Main Entry: myth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictitious story, often ancient
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story
Antonyms: fact, truth, non-fiction
Main Entry: narrative
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: story, tale
Synonyms: account, anecdote, book, chronicle, description, detail, fiction, history, line, narration, plot, recount, report, statement, version, yarn*, chronology, long and short of it, potboiler
Main Entry: novel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictional book
Synonyms: best-seller, fiction, narrative, prose, romance, story, tale, yarn*, cliff-hanger, novelette, novella, paperback, potboiler
Main Entry: prose
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written, nonrhythmic literature
Synonyms: book, composition, essay, exposition, fiction, speech, story, talk, text, tongue*, writing, nonfiction
Antonyms: poem, poetry
Main Entry: rumor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk about supposed truth
Synonyms: breeze*, canard, comment, cry, dispatch, fabrication, falsehood, fame, fiction, gossip, grapevine*, hearsay, hoax, innuendo, intelligence, invention, lie, news, notoriety, report, rumble, scandal, scuttlebutt*, story, suggestion, supposition, tale, tattle, tidings, whisper, wire*, word, back-fence talk, bruit, earful, repute
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: figment of the imagination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fiction of the mind
Synonyms: fabrication, fantasy, fiction, figment, imagination, invention, whimsy, creation of the brain, creature of the imagination, phantom of the mind, wildest dream
Main Entry: book
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: published document
Synonyms: album, bible, booklet, brochure, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, handbook, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, novel, omnibus, opus, pamphlet, periodical, portfolio, primer, publication, reader, roll, scroll, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, volume, work, writing, atlas, bestseller, codex, folio, hardcover, nonfiction, octavo, offprint, opuscule, paperback, preprint, quarto, reprint, softcover, speller, vade mecum
Main Entry: fabrication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: concoction, deceit, fable, fake*, falsehood, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, hogwash*, invention, jazz*, line*, myth, opus, smoke*, song and dance*, untruth, work, yarn, artifact, fairy story, jive*
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: legend
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: story of the past, often fictitious
Synonyms: fable, fiction, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, narrative, saga, tale, tradition, folk story, mythos
Main Entry: story
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account, news
Synonyms: adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler
Main Entry: tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: story
Synonyms: account, anecdote, fable, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, legend, myth, narration, narrative, novel, relation, report, romance, saga, short story, yarn
Main Entry: composition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written or musical creation
Synonyms: arrangement, article, chart, dissertation, drama, essay, exercise, exposition, fiction, manuscript, melody, music, novel, number, opus, paper, piece, play, poetry, romance, score, setup, short story, song, stanza, study, symphony, theme, thesis, tune, verse, work, writing, cantata, concerto, getup, literary work, rhapsody
Main Entry: invention
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fabrication, lie
Synonyms: deceit, fake, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, prevarication, sham*, story, untruth, yarn*, tall story
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: romance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fanciful story or narrative
Synonyms: ballad, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idealization, legend, lyric, novel, story, tale, idyll, love story, melodrama, tear-jerker
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