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

Then there are fraudsters, compulsive fabricators, and people who misrepresent themselves in major ways.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 July 2026
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

Definition of fabricators

Noun

The students who wrote these letters are a dazzlingly multilingual crowd, natural storytellers who can toggle between three or four languages in the same conversation.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Throughout the first twenty years of our history as digital storytellers, family-life representation has continued on the same trajectory that started with the fantasy-family home videos first made by amateur filmmakers in the 1920s and ’30s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of storytellers

Noun

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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