Synonyms and Antonyms of tale
1
a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature - Don't believe the tales you hear about our neighbor's kid.
dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearing, talk, tattle
defamation, libel, slander
hearsay
fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, untruth, whopper
2
a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally - We asked Dad to tell once again the tale of how, as a kid, he broke his arm jumping out of a tree.
3
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive - Anne told tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background.
fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, untruth, whopper
distortion, exaggeration, half-truth
ambiguity, equivocation
defamation, libel, slander
perjury
bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)
canard, fallacy, misconception, myth
falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement
deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
4
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel - the oft-told tale of Sleeping Beauty
bedtime story
exemplum, fable, parable
anecdote, joke
fairy tale, folktale, legend, myth, romance
account, annals, chronicle, history, record, report
5
a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added - the tale of those who walked this trail
