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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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