Synonyms for fable
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- n. 2
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Forms
- Plural
- fables → stories, myths, fictions, romances…
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The allegory, parable, or fable tells its story as if true, leaving the reader or hearer to discover its fictitious character and learn its lesson.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- fiction About half of everything he says is sheer fiction.
- romance I have studied all the national Romance languages.
- myth There's a myth that Edison invented the light bulb.
- legend There is a mysterious legend surrounding this lake.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1
- 4 letters
- plot1, myth1
- 5 letters
- story2
- 6 letters
- action2, legend2
- 7 letters
- fiction2, romance2, forgery3, parable3, figment2
- 8 letters
- allegory4, apologue
- 9 letters
- invention3, falsehood2
- 11 letters
- fabrication4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).