Definition for Fable:

• Story, esp, of supernatural character, not founded on fact; ( collect.) myths, legendary tales; idle talk( old wives ff.); false statement, lie; thing only supposed to exist; short story, esp. with animals for characters, conveying a moral, apologue; plot of play &c. [ French]

Synonyms for Fable:

• n.

  •
  • black comedy,
  • comedy,
  • drama,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • detective,
  • classic,
  • adaptation.
  •
  • real.
  •
  • words.
  •
  • religion,
  • belief.
  •allegory (noun)
  • fable,
  • emblem,
  • typification,
  • story,
  • moral,
  • symbol,
  • symbolization,
  • symbolism,
  • figuration.
  •apologue (noun)
  • apologue.
  •children's imaginative story with magical characters (noun)
  • fairy tale.
  •communication (noun)
  • fiction,
  • fabrication.
  •fable (noun)
  • falsehood,
  • fib,
  • whopper,
  • tall story,
  • bestiary,
  • fairy story,
  • old chestnut,
  • one for the birds,
  • untruth,
  • allegory,
  • old saw,
  • yarn,
  • hogwash,
  • fantasy,
  • fish story,
  • figment,
  • invention,
  • romance,
  • bunk,
  • legend,
  • parable,
  • myth,
  • tale,
  • crock,
  • white lie.
  •fabrication (noun)
  • artifact,
  • smoke*,
  • deceit,
  • work,
  • jive,
  • concoction,
  • forgery,
  • opus,
  • line*,
  • jazz,
  • song and dance.
  •fairy tale (noun)
  • fairy-tale,
  • ghost story.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • equivocation,
  • pretense,
  • fallacy,
  • dishonesty,
  • untruthfulness,
  • fraud,
  • cover-up,
  • deception,
  • error,
  • perjury,
  • dissimulation,
  • fallaciousness,
  • fibbery,
  • coverup,
  • feigning,
  • prevarication,
  • Untruism,
  • falsity,
  • erroneousness,
  • misstatement,
  • distortion,
  • mendacity,
  • mis-statement,
  • falseness,
  • fakery,
  • half truth,
  • half truths,
  • sham*,
  • line,
  • cover up,
  • canard.
  •figment (noun)
  • bubble*,
  • castle in the air,
  • nightmare,
  • illusion,
  • dream,
  • chimera,
  • daydream,
  • production.
  •folklore (noun)
  • folk story,
  • ballad,
  • wisdom,
  • superstition,
  • mythology,
  • custom,
  • oral literature,
  • mythos.
  •inveracity (noun)
  • in-veracities,
  • in-veracity,
  • in veracities,
  • in veracity.
  •legend (noun)
  • lore,
  • saga,
  • folklore,
  • folk tale.
  •lie (noun)
  • disinformation,
  • slander,
  • Calumniation,
  • hyperbole,
  • vilification,
  • guile,
  • aspersion,
  • Backbiting,
  • calumny,
  • libel,
  • fraudulence,
  • defamation,
  • obloquy,
  • revilement,
  • subterfuge,
  • inaccuracy,
  • evasion,
  • Reviling,
  • falsification,
  • detraction.
  •lore (noun)
  • erudition,
  • in formation,
  • scholarship,
  • sayings,
  • knowledge,
  • enlightenment,
  • experience,
  • teaching,
  • letters,
  • science,
  • adage,
  • saw,
  • doctrine,
  • saying,
  • learning,
  • information.
  •myth (noun)
  • folk ballads,
  • folk ballad.
  •narrative, rendering (noun)
  • recital.
  •old wives' tale (noun)
  • false beliefs,
  • false knowledges,
  • superstitious beliefs,
  • superstitious belief,
  • old wives tale,
  • false knowledge,
  • false belief.
  •parable (noun)
  • lessons,
  • lesson.
  •popular belief (noun)
  • old wives' tale.
  •recital (noun)
  • re capitulation,
  • recountal,
  • de-tailings,
  • re petition,
  • re citation,
  • re-petitions,
  • musicales,
  • re capitulations,
  • recountings,
  • re counting,
  • re citations,
  • re petitions,
  • re-citations,
  • re-capitulation,
  • tellings,
  • musicals,
  • de tailings,
  • Musicale,
  • de tailing,
  • de-tailing,
  • re-counting,
  • re-petition,
  • detailings,
  • recountals,
  • re-citation,
  • re-capitulations.
  •reputation (noun)
  • elevation,
  • acclaim,
  • popularity,
  • celebrity,
  • renown,
  • Famousness,
  • Illustriousness,
  • esteem,
  • notoriety,
  • prominence,
  • reputation,
  • notability,
  • Fame,
  • preeminence,
  • Memorability,
  • noteworthiness,
  • distinction.
  •story (noun)
  • Conte,
  • auto-biography,
  • nonfiction,
  • long and short it,
  • auto biographies,
  • long short of it,
  • non fiction,
  • re cords,
  • re cord,
  • folktale,
  • epic,
  • nonfictions,
  • non-fiction,
  • non fictions,
  • folktales,
  • old saws,
  • re-cords,
  • auto-biographies,
  • non-fictions,
  • conti,
  • news item,
  • re-cord,
  • auto biography,
  • long short it,
  • serials,
  • memoir,
  • long and short of it,
  • news items.
  •tale (noun)
  • short stories,
  • short story.
  •tall tale (noun)
  • cock and bull story,
  • tall-tale,
  • flight fancy.
  •tradition (noun)
  • in heritance,
  • in-heritance,
  • unwritten law,
  • in heritances,
  • in-heritances.
  •yarn (noun)
  • sea stories,
  • sea story.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lie,
  • tradition,
  • tall tale.

Paraphrases for Fable:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    tale, myth.

Antonyms for Fable:

• n.

  • fable
    truth.
  • fantasy, story
    sense.
  • fiction
    non-fiction.
  • figment
    reality.
  • lie
    honesty.
  • Other antonyms:
    confirmation, actuality, narrative, authentication, substantiation, validation, veracity, fact, materiality, record, truism, history, truthfulness, realness, verification, verity, chronicle.

Fable Sentence Examples:

• Alarmed by their long absence, the widow, who at first received the message from the stranger, went herself to the cottage, and found that the story was a fable.

• To us who have our lives so largely in books the material world is always the fable, and the ideal the fact.

Homophones for Fable:

• feel, file away, fallow, fuel oil, flywheel, folly, fellah, fella, fall, folio, follow, flail, fail, foul, flay, flow, folie, foil, flow away, file, filly, fulah, fool away, fall away, flee, floe, fellow, flyaway, fowl, flea, falla, fallal, fula, foully, felly, faille, feeble, felloe, fibula, fool, Fa La, flyway, fully, fell, fl, Ful, flaw, flue, filial, full, fille, foible, fly, Fal La, fill, fuel, fipple, flu, foal.

Hypernym for Fable:

• n.

  • communication
    canard.

Hyponym for Fable:

• n.

  • communication
    falsehood, untruth, falsity.