fabrication | Definition of fabrication

Synonyms and Antonyms of fabrication

1 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication

Synonyms of fabrication

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

Words Related to fabrication

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

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 fabrication

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of fabrication

2 something that is the product of the imagination

the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers

Synonyms of fabrication

fable, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, figment, invention

Words Related to fabrication

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

Near Antonyms of fabrication

actuality, realness

Antonyms of fabrication

fact, materiality, reality