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fable

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fable

1 a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life

  • this classic Christmas film is essentially a fable showing how every personʼs life has meaning and touches the lives of others
Synonyms of fable

allegory, apologue, parable
Words Related to fable

beast fable, bestiary

morality play

legend, myth, mythology, narrative, tale

2 a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature

  • according to an ancient fable the waters of the mountain spring are the tears of a woman weeping for her lost children
Synonyms of fable

legend, myth, mythos
Words Related to fable

allegory, parable

fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, figment, invention

narrative, saga, story, tale, yarn

3 something that is the product of the imagination

  • the stories of lost cities of gold may have been fables deliberately concocted by Native Americans to dupe the Spanish
Synonyms of fable

fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, figment, invention
Words Related to fable

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

make-believe
Near Antonyms of fable

actuality, realness
Antonyms of fable

fact, materiality, reality

4 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

  • the fables that people tell themselves to rationalize their failures and shortcomings
Synonyms of fable

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

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 of fable

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification
Antonyms of fable

truth

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