| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
Synonyms: |
chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn |
| Notes: | an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
| Main Entry: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
Synonyms: |
BS, baloney, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, crookedness, exaggeration, intorsion, jazz, jive, lie, line, malconformation, malformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misuse, mutilation, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, tall story, torture, twist, twistedness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, clarity, perfection |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, parable, romance, tale, tall story, untruth, white lie, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| 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: | invention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fabrication, lie |
Synonyms: |
deceit, fake, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, prevarication, sham*, story, tall story, untruth, yarn |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | untruth |
Synonyms: |
aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, whopper |
Antonyms: |
honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | misrepresentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, false light, falsification, lie, misstatement, mutilation, not a true picture, slant, story*, stretch, tall story, twist, untruth |
| Main Entry: | misstatement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, coloring, distortion, exaggeration, fabrication, false light, falsehood, falsification, inaccuracy, lie, misstatement, mutilation, not a true picture, slant, story*, stretch, tall story, twist, untruth |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
Antonyms: |
fact, non-fiction, truth |