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tale

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of tale

1 a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature
  • donʼt believe the tales you hear about our neighborʼs kid
Synonyms of tale

canard, story, whisper
Words Related to tale

dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearing, talk, tattle

dirty laundry, dirty linen

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
  • asked Dad to tell once again the tale of how, as a kid, he broke his arm jumping out of a tree
Synonyms of tale

anecdote, story, yarn
Words Related to tale

episode, event, happening, incident, occurrence

recital, recitation
3 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
  • told tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background
Synonyms of tale

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
Words Related to tale

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

perjury

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence
Near Antonyms of tale

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification
Antonyms of tale

truth
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
Synonyms of tale

narrative, novelette, novella, short story, story, yarn
Words Related to tale

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
  • when the tale of the dead from the disaster is announced, the city will be in shock
Synonyms of tale

census, count, tally
Words Related to tale

score

amount, gross, sum, total, whole

recount

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