fiction

English Thesaurus

1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	literary composition, literary work,
definition	:	imaginative or creative writing (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	dystopia,
definition	:	a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	novel,
definition	:	an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	fantasy, phantasy,
definition	:	fiction with a large amount of imagination in it (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	story,
definition	:	a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	utopia,
definition	:	a work of fiction describing a utopia (noun.communication)

2. a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	falsehood, falsity, untruth,
definition	:	a false statement (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	canard,
definition	:	a deliberately misleading fabrication (noun.communication)

3. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (noun.communication)

derivation	:	fictionalise, fictionalize, retell,
definition	:	make into fiction (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious,
definition	:	formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all)

derivation	:	fictional,
definition	:	related to or involving literary fiction (adj.pert)

4. a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication)

derivation	:	fabulist,
definition	:	a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person)

derivation	:	cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture,
definition	:	make up something artificial or untrue (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fictionalise, fictionalize, retell,
definition	:	make into fiction (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fabulous,
definition	:	barely credible (adj.all)

derivation	:	assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham,
definition	:	adopted in order to deceive (adj.all)

derivation	:	fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious,
definition	:	formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all)

5. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (noun.communication)

derivation	:	fictionalise, fictionalize, retell,
definition	:	make into fiction (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious,
definition	:	formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all)

derivation	:	fictional,
definition	:	related to or involving literary fiction (adj.pert)

6. a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication)

derivation	:	fabulist,
definition	:	a person who tells or invents fables (noun.person)

derivation	:	cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture,
definition	:	make up something artificial or untrue (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fictionalise, fictionalize, retell,
definition	:	make into fiction (verb.creation)

derivation	:	fabulous,
definition	:	barely credible (adj.all)

derivation	:	assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham,
definition	:	adopted in order to deceive (adj.all)

derivation	:	fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious,
definition	:	formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all)