Fable Synonyms and Antonyms

fābəl
A narrative not based on fact
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fiction
  2. fabrication
  3. story
An entertaining and often oral account of a real or fictitious occurrence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. allegory
  2. tale
  3. story
  4. parable
  5. legend
  6. apologue
  7. anecdote
  8. apologue (moral fable)
  9. bestiary
  10. concoction
  11. exemplum
  12. fabrication
  13. falsehood
  14. fantasy
  15. tall tale
  16. fiction
  17. lie
  18. myth
  19. yarn
  20. narrative
  21. untruth
Antonyms:
  1. truth
A traditional story or tale that has no proven factual basis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. legend
  2. myth
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. allegoric
  2. allegorical
  3. apocryphal
  4. fabular
  5. fabulous
  6. fictitious
  7. mythical
  8. parabolical
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. allegorize
  2. fabulize
  3. mythologize
  4. parabolize

Words Related to Fable

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Fable Sentence Examples

  • The whole fable about how her stepson died was a fabrication.

  • Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

  • On this occasion he recited the well-known fable of the belly and the members.

  • He wrote a fantastic fable which he wanted to read to the rest of the class.

  • This story is mere fable, for the problem is far older than Plato.

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