What is another word for confabulate?
1396 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kənfˈabjʊlˌe͡ɪt], [ kənfˈabjʊlˌeɪt], [ k_ə_n_f_ˈa_b_j_ʊ_l_ˌeɪ_t]
Confabulate is a word that generally refers to informal communication. This can range from casual conversation to more formal discussions. Some synonyms for confabulate include chat, converse, talk, discuss, and confer. Each of these words can be used to describe different types of communication. Chatting is often seen as more casual, while conferencing is usually a more formal setting. Conversing can be either formal or informal, depending on the context. Talking is often used to describe a presentation or lecture-style communication, while discussing implies a more in-depth exploration of a topic. Ultimately, the choice of synonym will depend on the tone and purpose of the communication.
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Similar words for confabulate:
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (noun, verb)
- yak/yap (noun, verb)
- communicate (verb)
- confer (verb)
- consult (verb)
- converse (verb)
- creation (verb)
- discuss (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- powwow (verb)
- rap (verb)
- talk (verb)
- treat (verb)
- other synonyms
- confab
- other relevant words
- powwow
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Confabulate:
n.
• Other relevant words: (noun)n. & v.
• Other relevant words: (noun, verb) • yak/yap (noun, verb)v.
• communicate (verb)- get on horn,
- gotten on horn,
- haddest confidence of,
- gave call,
- get the horn,
- is touch,
- tele-phoned,
- tele-phones,
- gave a call,
- establishing contact,
- get horn,
- drops a line,
- gives ring,
- dropt a note,
- are touch,
- is near,
- getting horn,
- giving ring,
- hast confidence of,
- had confidence of,
- getting on horn,
- dis-courses,
- gotten on the horn,
- gat the horn,
- were touch,
- drop note,
- got horn,
- associating with,
- were near,
- gets on the horn,
- dis coursed,
- drops note,
- hadst confidence of,
- getting on the horn,
- was in touch,
- are close to,
- dis-coursing,
- getting the horn,
- gave ring,
- wast in touch,
- associates with,
- art in touch,
- was near,
- gotten the horn,
- dis-coursed,
- gives call,
- dis coursing,
- is close to,
- wert in touch,
- dropping note,
- were close to,
- was close to,
- re plied,
- having confidence of,
- dis-course,
- wert close to,
- giving call,
- re ached,
- gives a call,
- communed with,
- tele phone,
- has confidence of,
- gets the horn,
- establishes contact,
- tele phoned,
- art close to,
- dis courses,
- art touch,
- gotten horn,
- is in touch,
- were in touch,
- are in touch,
- dropt a line,
- dropping a line,
- wast touch,
- dropped note,
- be touch,
- dropped a line,
- giving a ring,
- gat horn,
- was touch,
- dropt line,
- drops a note,
- dropped line,
- wert near,
- got on the horn,
- drops line,
- am close to,
- gave a ring,
- being touch,
- wast close to,
- give call,
- re-ached,
- tele phoning,
- give ring,
- am touch,
- wast near,
- being near,
- art near,
- gets horn,
- got on horn,
- re-plied,
- communes with,
- gat on the horn,
- tele-phone,
- giving a call,
- tele phones,
- being in touch,
- gat on horn,
- established contact,
- gets on horn,
- tele-phoning,
- re plying,
- dis course,
- re aching,
- communing with,
- gives a ring,
- re-plying,
- hath confidence of,
- re-aching,
- got the horn,
- dropped a note,
- dropping line,
- dropping a note,
- wert touch,
- being close to,
- dropt note.
- gotten heads together,
- gives meeting,
- pick one brain,
- picking brain,
- kicked ideas around,
- de-bates,
- picked one's brain,
- de-bate,
- pick brain,
- picks one brain,
- kicking ideas around,
- kicks ideas around,
- collogued,
- gets heads together,
- tossed ideas around,
- gat heads together,
- groupthinked,
- de bates,
- pick ones brain,
- picks ones brain,
- de-bating,
- picks brain,
- giving meeting,
- tost ideas around,
- picked brain,
- de-bated,
- picked one brain,
- groupthinking,
- picks one's brain,
- de bating,
- gave meeting,
- tossing ideas around,
- picking one's brain,
- de bated,
- collogues,
- picking ones brain,
- got heads together,
- picked ones brain,
- tosses ideas around,
- groupthinks,
- picking one brain,
- getting heads together,
- colloguing,
- de bate.
- picking one's brains,
- seeking opinion of,
- talks over,
- taking counsel,
- inter-view,
- inter viewed,
- takes meeting,
- putting heads together,
- de-liberating,
- taking meeting,
- picks ones brains,
- seeks advice,
- de liberating,
- picked one brains,
- re-spects,
- inter-viewing,
- pick brains,
- comparing notes,
- inter-views,
- sought opinion of,
- took meeting,
- de-liberate,
- de liberates,
- were closeted with,
- taking account of,
- de-liberated,
- take meeting,
- was closeted with,
- calls in,
- took counsel,
- re gards,
- are closeted with,
- re-view,
- de-liberates,
- inter view,
- re spect,
- turning to,
- puts heads together,
- re-views,
- seeks opinion of,
- compares notes,
- re-viewed,
- picked ones brains,
- re viewed,
- re viewing,
- talking over,
- picking ones brains,
- wast closeted with,
- sought advice,
- am closeted with,
- refers to,
- takes account of,
- re-spect,
- picks one's brains,
- re view,
- takes counsel,
- took account of,
- takes a meeting,
- turned to,
- re-gard,
- picks one brains,
- asks advice of,
- asked advice of,
- wert closeted with,
- picking one brains,
- picked brains,
- is closeted with,
- re spects,
- picks brains,
- inter viewing,
- compared notes,
- asking advice of,
- inter-viewed,
- turns to,
- picking brains,
- picked one's brains,
- inter views,
- being closeted with,
- talked over,
- de liberate,
- taking a meeting,
- seeking advice,
- re views,
- pick one brains,
- took a meeting,
- art closeted with,
- calling in,
- pick ones brains,
- de liberated.
- ex-plains,
- disserted,
- de-scanting,
- discepting,
- de-scants,
- dis-cept,
- thrashing out,
- consulting with,
- ex plains,
- ex-plained,
- de-scant,
- kicks about,
- dis-cussed,
- de scant,
- dis cussing,
- thrashed out,
- reasoning about,
- consults with,
- dis sert,
- dis-cuss,
- de scants,
- discoursed about,
- tosses around,
- disserting,
- discourses about,
- bounced off,
- dissertating,
- bounces off,
- hashed over,
- dis-cussing,
- exchanging views on,
- tost around,
- de-scanted,
- go in to,
- de scanted,
- ex plain,
- dissertated,
- ex-plaining,
- discoursing about,
- kicked about,
- de scanting,
- dissertates,
- exchanged views on,
- consulted with,
- dis cuss,
- ex plaining,
- kicking about,
- hashing over,
- dis-cusses,
- discepts,
- reasoned about,
- dis cept,
- tossing around,
- reasons about,
- dis-sert,
- holds forth,
- disserts,
- thrashes out,
- bouncing off,
- hashes over,
- dis cusses,
- exchanges views on,
- ex plained,
- dis cussed,
- discepted,
- ex-plain.
- goes into huddle,
- going into huddle,
- went into a huddle,
- goes in to a huddle,
- going in to a huddle,
- go in to a huddle,
- go in to huddle,
- went into huddle,
- went in to huddle,
- going in to huddle,
- goes in to huddle,
- going into a huddle,
- go into huddle,
- goes into a huddle,
- went in to a huddle.
- ran at mouth,
- run at mouth,
- runs the mouth,
- running off at the mouth,
- ran the mouth,
- ran off mouth,
- run the mouth,
- ran off at mouth,
- runs at the mouth,
- runs at mouth,
- running the mouth,
- running off the mouth,
- ran mouth,
- run at the mouth,
- runs off at mouth,
- running at the mouth,
- run mouth,
- running mouth,
- running at mouth,
- running off mouth,
- run off the mouth,
- running off at mouth,
- ran off the mouth,
- runs off the mouth,
- ran off at the mouth,
- runs off mouth,
- run off mouth,
- runs mouth,
- ran at the mouth,
- runs off at the mouth.
- carried on conversation,
- inter-face,
- being contact,
- hadst meet,
- inter faces,
- having a meet,
- carrying on conversation,
- joining in conversation,
- holding discussion,
- engage conversation,
- inter faced,
- ex changing,
- had meet,
- hadst a meet,
- ex-changing,
- are contact,
- hath a meet,
- inter acted,
- inter facing,
- art contact,
- is contact,
- joining conversation,
- ex change,
- hath meet,
- is in contact,
- wert contact,
- was contact,
- join conversation,
- am in contact,
- held discussion,
- engages in conversation,
- ex changes,
- holds discussion,
- carrying conversation,
- has meet,
- being in contact,
- inter-act,
- inter acting,
- engages conversation,
- having meet,
- inter face,
- keeps in touch,
- kept touch,
- inter-faced,
- engaging conversation,
- had a meet,
- keeping touch,
- joins in conversation,
- inter act,
- carry conversation,
- hast meet,
- inter-acts,
- kept in touch,
- inter-acted,
- joined in conversation,
- keeps touch,
- hast a meet,
- inter acts,
- carries conversation,
- carried conversation,
- keeping in touch,
- engaged in conversation,
- carries on conversation,
- inter-acting,
- haddest a meet,
- were contact,
- art in contact,
- re-lated,
- wast in contact,
- have meet,
- has a meet,
- am contact,
- were in contact,
- engaged conversation,
- joined conversation,
- inter-faces,
- wert in contact,
- wast contact,
- haddest meet,
- keep touch,
- engaging in conversation,
- are in contact,
- be contact,
- was in contact,
- joins conversation,
- re late,
- ex-changed.
- discoursed on,
- speaks about,
- writing about,
- writ about,
- enlarging upon,
- enlarged up on,
- touches upon,
- enlarged upon,
- talks about,
- enlarges upon,
- talking about,
- touching upon,
- wrote about,
- touched up on,
- touches up on,
- touching up on,
- discoursing on,
- enlarging up on,
- touched upon,
- spoke about,
- writes about,
- speaking about,
- enlarges up on,
- spake about,
- touch up on,
- enlarge up on,
- discourses on.
Other synonyms:
• confab • Other relevant words:- pick out,
- rumourmonger,
- interpret,
- lower,
- witness,
- be intimate,
- mandible,
- yell,
- contribute,
- fiddle-faddle,
- flail,
- relate,
- denote,
- cud,
- point out,
- honor,
- suggest,
- put forward,
- find out,
- fulfill,
- monger,
- agnize,
- powwow,
- date,
- hump,
- chewing,
- feeling,
- spoke,
- jowl,
- cluck,
- let on,
- hammer out,
- apprise,
- old world chat,
- dog,
- join,
- pat,
- sojourn,
- brattle,
- essay,
- cheap-jack,
- bat,
- drool,
- radius,
- promise,
- kuki,
- comprise,
- reach out,
- send word,
- expect,
- jabber,
- grant,
- dissertate,
- writes,
- stir,
- take in,
- finger,
- razz,
- get laid,
- holding forth,
- write about,
- communicate,
- picture,
- lie with,
- chaw,
- speak about,
- smatter,
- get to,
- bonk,
- delicacy,
- nark,
- concern,
- detent,
- talk over,
- kick ideas around,
- discuss,
- boloney,
- watch,
- intercommunicate,
- image,
- verbalize,
- adjoin,
- Dissert,
- describe,
- fulfil,
- telephone,
- divulge,
- hash over,
- get word,
- reach,
- pay off,
- process,
- fill,
- pawl,
- Mooting,
- sheet,
- address,
- talkativeness,
- deal,
- experience,
- be closeted with,
- lash,
- vend,
- gossipmonger,
- toss,
- thresh about,
- pick up,
- fall into place,
- cream,
- empty talk,
- public lecture,
- ride,
- be,
- fall in,
- telephone call,
- seek opinion of,
- assure,
- write,
- scrutinise,
- chitchatted,
- blither,
- wrangle,
- humbug,
- get across,
- discern,
- phone,
- gather,
- tantalise,
- beat,
- gossiper,
- break,
- bed,
- squealer,
- probe,
- flick,
- pass along,
- establish contact,
- chin-wagging,
- live,
- run into,
- blitzing,
- bring out,
- keep in touch,
- Parleyed,
- lam,
- severalize,
- user interface,
- small talk,
- sacrifice,
- satisfy,
- tommyrot,
- torment,
- mussitate,
- pink,
- peddle,
- reveal,
- irritate,
- debate,
- take down,
- seem,
- counsel,
- gabfest,
- add,
- notice,
- cut down,
- figure,
- quid,
- evoke,
- peach,
- lick,
- join forces,
- even out,
- plow,
- argufy,
- touch,
- front,
- anticipate,
- even off,
- construe,
- appear,
- port,
- give a ring,
- Parleying,
- generate,
- dedicate,
- hot air,
- secern,
- haggling,
- have it away,
- staggered head,
- bring,
- kick about,
- honour,
- disclose,
- run across,
- land,
- call option,
- visualise,
- balderdash,
- cooperate,
- enforce,
- flavour,
- revalue,
- mosh,
- face,
- care for,
- take account,
- clatter,
- consider,
- be in contact,
- attack,
- cane,
- wrangling,
- forge,
- handle,
- lallation,
- preaching,
- signalise,
- rundle,
- reduce,
- make out,
- aspect,
- excogitate,
- run-in,
- disputable,
- blame,
- keep going,
- carry on conversation,
- take note,
- feed,
- go steady,
- shell,
- give a call,
- return,
- garrulity,
- reproval,
- interface,
- put down,
- Altercated,
- maintain,
- have it off,
- cackle,
- be close to,
- row,
- screw,
- slash,
- rile,
- speech,
- called in,
- rag week,
- founder,
- singing,
- value,
- blitzed,
- forebode,
- dialogued,
- go through,
- hold forth,
- get on the horn,
- predict,
- rap music,
- throw,
- celebrate,
- signalize,
- cut,
- dainty,
- get wind,
- identify,
- toss ideas around,
- outcry,
- ascertain,
- control,
- check,
- have,
- sense,
- hollo,
- baloney,
- pick one's brain,
- plug,
- be near,
- blandishment,
- tantalize,
- trim back,
- lower jaw,
- song,
- fall upon,
- patch up,
- detect,
- search,
- wheedle,
- ask advice of,
- belt,
- lather,
- reprove,
- see to it,
- chink,
- poke out,
- levy,
- holler,
- ease up,
- babble out,
- secernate,
- coax,
- devise,
- be in touch,
- prove,
- catch,
- love,
- watch over,
- talk,
- admonish,
- cover,
- recognise,
- have a go at it,
- drop line,
- bang,
- name,
- raise,
- interacting,
- count,
- advert,
- let out,
- referred to,
- do by,
- consecrate,
- penetrate,
- attend,
- uncover,
- crucify,
- sweet-talk,
- call in,
- run off at mouth,
- reversed,
- scrutinize,
- take care,
- phone call,
- whip,
- flog,
- air out,
- treasury obligations,
- new world chat,
- loquaciousness,
- call back,
- scuttlebutt,
- sports meeting,
- stagger head,
- exchequer,
- Cabling,
- treatment,
- first lord of the treasury,
- drop a line,
- drub,
- yak,
- make,
- claim,
- spill,
- held forth,
- conform to,
- sink in,
- mention,
- bid,
- catch up with,
- hold,
- note,
- keep an eye on,
- kick in,
- knock,
- tossed around,
- analyze,
- manduction,
- mouth,
- have sex,
- leave,
- talk of,
- convulse,
- cable,
- hold discussion,
- play,
- cajole,
- get at,
- trim,
- grouch,
- formulate,
- collapse,
- confer,
- telegram,
- follow,
- bring up,
- arguable,
- palpate,
- censure,
- turn to,
- keep,
- empty words,
- chip in,
- devote,
- contrive,
- pass,
- rap,
- conjure up,
- cognize,
- dustup,
- do it,
- constrain,
- ragtime,
- assemble,
- tap,
- call forth,
- send for,
- rely,
- bait,
- pass on,
- air,
- Cabled,
- causerie,
- convey,
- reconcile,
- strap,
- expression,
- contact,
- crush,
- have confidence of,
- vociferation,
- rehash,
- rally,
- represent,
- Treating,
- tone,
- light upon,
- roll in the hay,
- differentiate,
- constitute,
- treat,
- dispute,
- jazz,
- telling,
- put across,
- test,
- take to task,
- cite,
- audit,
- lash out,
- realise,
- bounce off,
- meeting,
- render,
- cave in,
- fuck,
- snipe,
- swear,
- establish,
- regard,
- arouse,
- reached out,
- notify,
- tease,
- dialoguing,
- consult,
- dun,
- telegraph,
- bubble,
- construct,
- canvass,
- slam dance,
- tabloid,
- common scold,
- get it on,
- mastication,
- take on,
- prognosticate,
- trim down,
- vanquish,
- kuki-chin,
- determine,
- tactile property,
- talk of the town,
- talking,
- interfaced,
- rat,
- tosh,
- get through,
- kick around,
- bilgewater,
- goody,
- present,
- suffer,
- industry,
- recall,
- mutter,
- snap,
- propose,
- slam,
- subvert,
- taunt,
- insure,
- reason about,
- write on,
- cognise,
- welt,
- bedevil,
- settle,
- spring,
- apply,
- visualize,
- mumble,
- nettle,
- chit chat,
- understand,
- chin up,
- compare notes,
- confabulation,
- whack,
- commune with,
- refer to,
- mark,
- agnise,
- mandibular bone,
- wire,
- even up,
- shout out,
- correct,
- reaches out,
- try out,
- chitchatting,
- talk terms,
- tatter,
- Mooted,
- garrulousness,
- pitch,
- assault,
- await,
- altercate,
- blather,
- yield,
- wheel spoke,
- receive,
- abide by,
- get heads together,
- severalise,
- fancy,
- enlarge upon,
- chafe,
- negociate,
- be known as,
- pay,
- moot,
- gurgle,
- ripple,
- utter,
- lay eyes on,
- bother,
- blether,
- cry,
- treasury department,
- try,
- acknowledge,
- stepped line,
- blab out,
- mandibula,
- take account of,
- eff,
- reprehension,
- give notice,
- set on,
- burble,
- discourse on,
- discussion,
- call off,
- associated with,
- comprehend,
- come across,
- invoke,
- kickshaw,
- birdsong,
- talk about,
- comment,
- come upon,
- clack valve,
- department of the treasury,
- jabbering,
- interviewed,
- ventilate,
- depend,
- knock about,
- bank,
- clobber,
- chin wag,
- cajolery,
- tag,
- know as,
- turn over,
- smell,
- hawk,
- make love,
- unwrap,
- altercates,
- run off at the mouth,
- tell apart,
- collaborate,
- huddle together,
- engage in conversation,
- transmit,
- prize,
- looking at,
- discourse about,
- facial expression,
- remark,
- informer,
- sleep with,
- tick,
- exchange views on,
- respect,
- chance upon,
- fit,
- tell,
- foregather,
- foretell,
- cut back,
- let the cat out of the bag,
- taradiddle,
- shred,
- hip-hop,
- dropline,
- separate,
- thresh,
- move over,
- ensure,
- rumormonger,
- clink,
- knock around,
- gift,
- touch on,
- deliberate,
- envision,
- put heads together,
- clap,
- give meeting,
- vex,
- thrash about,
- suction stop,
- drop a note,
- greet,
- take counsel,
- happen upon,
- cower,
- touch upon,
- sleep together,
- transposed,
- verbalise,
- scream,
- escort,
- get a line,
- ring,
- attain,
- bear on,
- pertain,
- concoct,
- extend,
- join in conversation,
- chin music,
- thrash out,
- devil,
- forgather,
- yakety-yak,
- annoy,
- analyse,
- beat out,
- hear,
- knap,
- submaxilla,
- bet,
- gibberish,
- compensate,
- mentum,
- go out,
- groupthink,
- take a meeting,
- overthrow,
- blarney,
- study,
- inveigle,
- talking to,
- accredit,
- retrograde,
- round,
- wad,
- let down,
- give away,
- nag,
- pick one's brains,
- project,
- margin call,
- withdraw,
- find,
- interfacing,
- conjure,
- seek advice,
- have a meet,
- regale,
- wait,
- chance on,
- interfaces,
- give vent,
- flavor,
- quarrel,
- newsmonger,
- shout,
- commit,
- squall,
- strike,
- vent,
- conciliate,
- get down,
- toss around,
- write of,
- nagger,
- criminate,
- scrap,
- scolder,
- fitting,
- spill the beans,
- talked about,
- impart,
- conducting wire,
- idle talk,
- associate with,
- whang,
- counterbalance,
- call up,
- tarradiddle,
- consult with,
- gravel,
- apprize,
- expose,
- rhetoric,
- electrify,
- interact,
- lower jawbone,
- have intercourse,
- view,
- come to,
- spirit,
- hand,
- have to do with,
- underdress,
- give way,
- reaching out,
- collogue,
- bosh,
- come home,
- sing,
- debatable,
- fabrication,
- treasure,
- encounter,
- language,
- twit,
- open,
- birdcall,
- spot,
- stephead,
- frustrate,
- springiness,
- betrayer,
- lecturing,
- get together,
- tag end,
- sermon,
- Discept,
- rung,
- commune,
- lend,
- grumble,
- dawn,
- key,
- Altercating,
- key out,
- jactitate,
- guggle,
- moots,
- deal with,
- actor's line,
- calculate,
- mouse click,
- looking,
- chin-wag,
- learn,
- referring to,
- overturn,
- clapper valve,
- chin wagging,
- converge,
- reckon,
- realize,
- lyric.
- chew,
- afford,
- rebuke,
- scold,
- behold,
- know,
- bestow,
- chide,
- parley,
- call,
- gibber,
- yap away,
- masticate,
- look up,
- examine,
- haggle,
- see,
- Chatting,
- negotiate,
- remonstrate,
- bring down,
- treasury,
- clack,
- travel to,
- lambast,
- inspect,
- huddle,
- look,
- impose,
- chattering,
- prate,
- observe,
- refer,
- chew up,
- bandy words,
- perceive,
- click,
- yack away,
- berate,
- have words,
- babbling,
- inflict,
- higgle,
- give oneself airs,
- thrash,
- confer with,
- trounce,
- recognize,
- dress down,
- meet,
- chin,
- feel,
- distinguish,
- lambaste,
- bawl out,
- appreciate,
- talk nonsense,
- piffle,
- loquacity,
- reproof,
- communicate with,
- chew out,
- tittle-tattle,
- rattle on,
- assail,
- advise,
- discover,
- give,
- blab.
How to use "Confabulate" in context?
The word "confabulate" has two meanings. The first is to talk deliberately and elaborately in an attempt to deceive. The second is to make something up out of thin air to cover up a mistake or ignorance. The first definition is most often used when someone is trying to fool someone else. They will say something that sounds intelligent, but really isn't. They might use fancy language or make up stories. The second definition is used when someone is not sure what to say or is embarrassed. They might make up a story to cover up their mistake.
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- Synonyms:
- daresay.
