fabrication
English Thesaurus
1. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | falsification, misrepresentation, |
| definition | : | a willful perversion of facts (noun.act) |
2. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | building, construction, |
| definition | : | the act of constructing something (noun.act) |
3. the act of making something (a product) from raw materials (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | creating from raw materials, |
| definition | : | the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | newspeak, |
| definition | : | deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | prefabrication, |
| definition | : | the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site (noun.act) |
4. writing in a fictional form (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | authorship, composition, penning, writing, |
| definition | : | the act of creating written works (noun.act) |
5. a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication)
| hyponym | : | canard, |
| definition | : | a deliberately misleading fabrication (noun.communication) |
6. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth (noun.act)
| derivation | : | lie, |
| definition | : | tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate, |
| definition | : | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | construct, fabricate, manufacture, |
| definition | : | put together out of artificial or natural components or parts (verb.creation) |
7. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (noun.act)
| antonym | : | disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling, |
| definition | : | the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) (noun.act) |
| derivation | : | construct, fabricate, manufacture, construct, fabricate, manufacture, |
| definition | : | put together out of artificial or natural components or parts (verb.creation) |
8. writing in a fictional form (noun.act)
| derivation | : | fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise, novelize, |
| definition | : | convert into the form or the style of a novel (verb.change) |
| 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) |
9. 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 | : | fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, |
| definition | : | formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all) |
10. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth (noun.act)
| derivation | : | lie, |
| definition | : | tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate, |
| definition | : | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information (verb.communication) |
| derivation | : | construct, fabricate, manufacture, |
| definition | : | put together out of artificial or natural components or parts (verb.creation) |
11. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) (noun.act)
| antonym | : | disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling, |
| definition | : | the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) (noun.act) |
| derivation | : | construct, fabricate, manufacture, construct, fabricate, manufacture, |
| definition | : | put together out of artificial or natural components or parts (verb.creation) |
12. writing in a fictional form (noun.act)
| derivation | : | fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise, novelize, |
| definition | : | convert into the form or the style of a novel (verb.change) |
| 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) |
13. 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 | : | fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, |
| definition | : | formed or conceived by the imagination (adj.all) |
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