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story - 20 thesaurus results
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: story
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, cock-and-bull story*, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, misrepresentation, prevarication, tale, untruth, white lie*, untruism
Antonyms: truth
Main Entry: allegory
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indirect representation, storytelling
Synonyms: apologue, emblem, fable, figuration, moral, myth, parable, story, symbol, symbolism, tale, symbolization, typification
Main Entry: chronicle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account, narrative
Synonyms: annals, archives, diary, history, journal, narration, recital, record, register, report, story, version, prehistory, recountal
Main Entry: confession
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: admittance of information
Synonyms: acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, allowance, assertion, avowal, concession, declaration, disclosure, enumeration, exposé, exposure, narration, proclamation, profession, publication, recitation, relation, revelation, song*, squawk*, squeal*, statement, story, telling, utterance, assenting, disclosing, divulgence, making public, owning up, revealing, unbosoming
Notes: admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession
Antonyms: concealment, cover, denial, secret, disavowal
Main Entry: distortion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deformity; falsification
Synonyms: baloney*, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, exaggeration, jazz*, lie, line, malformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, torture, twist, warp, BS, crookedness, intorsion, jive*, malconformation, misinterpretation, misshape, mutilation, tall story, twistedness
Antonyms: beauty, clarity, perfection
Main Entry: excuse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reason, explanation
Synonyms: alibi, apology, cover*, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story*, grounds, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, routine, semblance, shift, song*, song and dance*, stall, stopgap*, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick*, vindication, whitewash*, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, coverup, jive*, rationalization, regrets, why and wherefore
Main Entry: facts
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inside information
Synonyms: bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, clue, cue, data, details, dope*, gospel, reality, scoop*, score*, story, info, inside dope, like it is, lowdown, numbers, poop, whole story
Antonyms: lies
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: falsity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dishonesty, deception
Synonyms: canard, cheating, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, unfaithfulness, untruth, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, erroneousness, fraudulence, perfidiousness, perfidy, uncandidness, unreality
Antonyms: honesty, truth, truthfulness
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: floor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bottom of a room; level of a multistory building
Synonyms: basement, canvas, carpet, cellar, deck, flat, flooring, ground, landing, mat, mezzanine, nadir, rug, stage, story, tier, upstairs, boards, downstairs, lowest point
Antonyms: ceiling
Main Entry: item
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: part, article
Synonyms: account, aspect, bit, blurb*, bulletin, column, component, consideration, detail, dispatch, element, entry, feature, incidental, information, matter, news, note, notice, novelty, particular, piece, point, report, scoop*, scrap, specific, story, thing, write-up, conversation piece, minor point, minutia, paragraph
Main Entry: justification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reason, excuse
Synonyms: absolution, account, acquittal, advocacy, answer, apologia, apology, approval, argument, basis, confirmation, defense, exculpation, exoneration, explanation, extenuation, grounds, idea, mitigation, palliation, palliative, plea, pretext, raison d'être, rationale, rationalization, rebuttal, redemption, reply, response, salvation, sanctification, song and dance*, story, support, validation, vindication, warrant, whatfor, wherefore*, whitewashing, whole idea, why and wherefore
Main Entry: layer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coating, tier
Synonyms: band, bed, blanket, coat, couch, course, cover, covering, film, flag, flap, floor, fold, girdle, lap, mantle, overlap, overlay, panel, ply, row, seam, sheet, slab, story, stratum, stripe, thickness, zone, coping, lamina, lamination, substratum
Main Entry: literature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written matter, both fictional and nonfictional
Synonyms: abstract, article, biography, brochure, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, history, humanities, information, leaflet, lit, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, précis, prose, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, belles-lettres, books, classics, findings, letters, literary works, writings, written work
Antonyms: speech
Main Entry: misrepresentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: falsehood
Synonyms: adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story
Main Entry: misstatement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misrepresentation
Synonyms: adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, falsehood, inaccuracy, lie, misstatement, slant, story*, stretch, twist, untruth, false light, falsification, mutilation, not a true picture, tall story
Main Entry: narration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: description, reading
Synonyms: account, anecdote, explanation, narrative, recital, rehearsal, relation, report, story, tale, telling, yarn*, recountal, recounting, storytelling, voice-over
Antonyms: concealment, suppression
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