| 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
|
* = informal/non-formal usage
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