MYTHOMANIACS Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

mythomaniacs

noun

plural of mythomaniac

as in exaggerators

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Noun

The attempts to save Platner in the high stakes campaign to defeat Republican incumbent Susan Collins involved portraying Platner’s accusers, women, as vengeful liars.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
O'Toole said psychopaths like Heuermann are pathological liars.

— Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of liars

Noun

Building top tier theme parks and lands requires as many as 10,000 workers and hundreds of suppliers covering everything from roller coaster manufacturers and scenery fabricators right down to costume vendors and paint distributors.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Evans, who also serves as co-executive director with Mary Fagot, wants to place the spotlight on the theater’s current crop of artists, fabricators and collaborators.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026

Definition of fabricators

Noun

In European mythology and literature, storytellers often portrayed dragons as creatures that amassed enormous wealth without ever using or sharing it, embodying the idea that riches pursued for their own sake can lead to isolation and ruin.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Create the Writers Room, a creative incubator for underrepresented storytellers, is expanding its ongoing partnership with the Roku Channel.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026

Definition of storytellers

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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
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

Definition of fabulists

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