tale
tale
nounDefinition of TALE
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a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature <don't believe the tales you hear about our neighbor's kid>
Related Words dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearing, talk, tattle; dirty laundry, dirty linen; defamation, libel, slander; hearsay; fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, untruth, whopper
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a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally <asked Dad to tell once again the tale of how, as a kid, he broke his arm jumping out of a tree>
3
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive <told tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background>
Synonyms fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
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
Antonyms truth
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a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel <the oft-told tale of Sleeping Beauty>
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