| Main Entry: | cliché |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overused, hackneyed phrase |
Synonyms: |
adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, motto, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, threadbare phrase, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapid expression |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
Synonyms: |
anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn |
Antonyms: |
non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, tale |
Synonyms: |
account, anecdote, book, chronicle, chronology, description, detail, fiction, history, line, long and short of it, narration, plot, potboiler, recount, report, statement, version, yarn |
| Main Entry: | novel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictional book |
Synonyms: |
best-seller, cliff-hanger, fiction, narrative, novelette, novella, paperback, potboiler, prose, romance, story, tale, yarn |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
Synonyms: |
banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | play |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theater piece |
Synonyms: |
comedy, curtain-raiser, drama, entertainment, farce, flop, hit*, mask*, musical, one-act, opera, performance, potboiler, show, smash hit, smash*, stage show, theatrical, tragedy, turkey |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
Synonyms: |
adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger, comedy, conte, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, folktale, gag, history, information, legend, long and short of it, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, news item, nonfiction, novel, old saw, parable, potboiler, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, apprehension, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, grabber, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, indecisiveness, insecurity, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, tension, thriller, uncertainty, wavering |
Antonyms: |
knowledge |
| Main Entry: | yarn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long and made-up |
Synonyms: |
adventure, alibi, anecdote, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, line, narrative, potboiler, prose, sea story, song and dance, song*, string, tale, tall story, tall tale |