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| Main Entry: | yarn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiber for knitting |
| Synonyms: | fleece, thread, twist, wool, cotton fiber, flaxen thread, spun wool |
| 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, prose, song*, song and dance*, string*, tale, tall tale, potboiler, sea story, tall story |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
| Synonyms: | episode, fairy tale*, fish story*, gag*, incident, narration, narrative, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall tale*, yarn, chestnut*, long and short of it, old chestnut, tall story |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | 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*, misrepresentation, pretension, rant, romance, stretch, untruth, whopper*, yarn*, aggrandizement, magnification, misjudgment, overemphasis, overestimation, pretentiousness, tall story |
| Antonyms: | reduction, understatement, minimization, unembellishment |
* = 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 |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | saga |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long |
| Synonyms: | adventure, chronicle, epic, legend, narrative, soap opera*, tale, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | twine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rope, cord |
| Synonyms: | braid, coil, convolution, knot, snarl, string, tangle, thread, twist, whorl, yarn, cordage |
| Main Entry: | wisecrack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | joke |
| Synonyms: | antic, caper, dig, escapade, farce, frolic, gag, lark, laugh, mischief, monkeyshine*, one-liner*, parody, prank, quip, remark, retort, rib, stunt, trick, witticism, yarn, clowning, put-on, shenanigan, smart crack, zinger |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fairy tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children's imaginative story with magical characters |
| Synonyms: | fable, myth, tale, yarn, Marchen, fairy story, ghost story |
| Main Entry: | fish story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated story |
| Synonyms: | bunk, cock-and-bull story, embellishment, exaggeration, lie, overstatement, tall tale, yarn, farfetched story, incredible story, tall story, trumped-up story |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, fallacy, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, tale, tradition, yarn, false belief, false knowledge, superstitious belief |
| Main Entry: | tall tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farfetched story |
| Synonyms: | cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fable, fish story, flight of fancy, yarn, tall story |
| Main Entry: | reminiscence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, chronicle, memory, nostalgia, recollection, remembering, remembrance, story, yarn, firsthand account, memoirs, reliving |
| Main Entry: | thread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a fine strand of twisted fibers |
| Synonyms: | braid, cord, fiber, filament, gossamer, hair, ribbon, strand, string, wire, wool, yarn, cotton, fibril, floss, lisle |
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