Synonyms of fabulist

fabulist

noun

ˈfa-byə-list 

as in liar

a person who tells lies

a once highly admired journalist whose reputation is now that of a disgraced fabulist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• liar
• storyteller
• prevaricator
• fabricator
• fibber
• exaggerator
• calumniator
• defamer
• libeler
• perjurer
• falsifier
• slanderer
• mythomaniac
• distorter
• dissembler
• deceiver
• mountebank
• charlatan
• pretender
• cheat
• knave
• gossiper
• counterfeiter
• equivocator
• defrauder
• cheater
• hustler
• libelist
• double-dealer
• fraud
• gossip
• dissimulator
• talebearer
• cozener
• operator
• palterer

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• square shooter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fabulist

More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived. — Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026

The multimillionaire financier, who died in federal custody in 2019, was also a fabulist and serial illusionist. — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 15 Nov. 2025

And, yes, this compulsive fabulist did in fact embezzle campaign funds from his own donors to fund a lavish lifestyle, did commit identity theft and did fraudulently collect pandemic unemployment benefits. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025

Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island. — Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025