Synonyms of fabrications

fabrications

noun

plural of fabrication

1

as in lies

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

her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lies
• tales
• stories
• falsehoods
• prevarications
• untruths
• fibs
• fables
• falsities
• fairy tales
• distortions
• mendacities
• whoppers
• exaggerations
• ambiguities
• fictions
• half-truths
• equivocations
• defamations
• slanders
• taradiddles
• libels
• deceits
• perjuries
• obliquities
• nonsense
• falsifications
• misrepresentations
• pretenses
• myths
• bluffs
• misstatements
• fallacies
• misconceptions
• dishonesties
• misinformation
• duplicities
• fraudulences
• poses
• canards
• humbug
• misreports
• jives

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truths
• facts
• verities
• truisms
• substantiations
• confirmations
• verifications
• validations
• veracities
• authentications
• honesties

2

as in fictions

something that is the product of the imagination

the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fictions
• tales
• fantasies
• stories
• inventions
• fables
• figments
• novels
• narratives
• yarns
• anecdotes
• falsehoods
• lies
• misrepresentations
• falsities
• prevarications
• fairy tales
• untruths
• fibs
• mendacities
• whoppers
• make-believe

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• materialities
• actualities

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fabrications

Shortly after the book was published, criticism came loudly, most focusing on the book’s historical inaccuracies and genealogical fabrications. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026

Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University's youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography. — Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

Cyber criminals are using highly convincing counterfeit audio, video, and identity fabrications as tools in ways that conventional detection methods will fail to identify. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Be sure to choose a longline style with a menswear feel (think pleats, textural fabrications, and more). — Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 31 July 2026

The key difference, Jewell noted, will be the additional fall facing fabrications that take color so well. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 29 July 2026

There have been exceptions, and some of the good vibes are surely online fabrications, but for many, the geopolitical tensions have been temporarily set aside. — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026

Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down. — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 14 June 2026