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noun

: a simple children's story about magical creatures

: a false story that is meant to trick people

Full Definition of FAIRY TALE

1

a :  a story (as for children) involving fantastic forces and beings (as fairies, wizards, and goblins) —called also fairy story

b :  a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending

2

:  a made-up story usually designed to mislead

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Examples of FAIRY TALE

1. the fairy tale about the sleeping princess
2. Everything he told us about his happy marriage was just a fairy tale.

First Known Use of FAIRY TALE

1749

Related to FAIRY TALE

Synonyms

fable, fabrication, lie, falsehood, falsity, fib, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

Antonyms

truth

Related Words

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth; ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity; defamation, libel, slander; perjury; bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence); humbug, jive, nonsense; canard, fallacy, misconception, myth; falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement; deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms

fact, truism, verity; honesty, truthfulness, veracity; authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Rhymes with FAIRY TALE

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