Definition for Tale:

• That which is told; a narrative or story; fable; anecdote; a piece of gossip; a count or reckoning.

Synonyms for Tale:

• n.

  •
  • fairy tale,
  • picture,
  • portrait.
  •
  • black comedy,
  • comedy,
  • exaggeration,
  • detective,
  • drama,
  • adaptation,
  • classic.
  •
  • true.
  •
  • words.
  •
  • count.
  •
  • sum,
  • sum total,
  • summation.
  •account (noun)
  • lowdown,
  • play by play,
  • whole picture,
  • the picture,
  • the whole picture,
  • rationalization,
  • blow by blow.
  •account, story (noun)
  • report.
  •allegory (noun)
  • figuration,
  • symbolism,
  • typifications,
  • symbolizations,
  • symbolization,
  • typification.
  •anecdote (noun)
  • chestnuts,
  • long short it,
  • long short of it,
  • tall story,
  • old chestnut,
  • anecdote,
  • long and short it,
  • chestnut,
  • old chestnuts,
  • long and short of it,
  • tall stories.
  •backbiting (noun)
  • spite,
  • backstabbings,
  • spitefulness,
  • cattinesses,
  • cattiness.
  •defamation (noun)
  • low down dirty,
  • cheap shots,
  • cheap shot,
  • low-down dirties,
  • low down dirties,
  • scorcher,
  • low-down dirty,
  • slap in face,
  • scorchers,
  • slap face,
  • lowdown dirties,
  • lowdown dirty,
  • dirty laundries,
  • dirty laundry.
  •description (noun)
  • characterizations,
  • recountals,
  • de-lineations,
  • ex-plication,
  • re-presentations,
  • portraiture,
  • re citation,
  • portraitures,
  • de lineation,
  • recountal,
  • re cord,
  • ex plications,
  • Re-presentation,
  • de lineations,
  • writeup,
  • ex-plications,
  • re presentations,
  • vignette,
  • in formation,
  • presentments,
  • ex plication,
  • re-citations,
  • re cords,
  • in-formation,
  • presentment,
  • in-formations,
  • re citations,
  • in formations,
  • re-cord,
  • de-lineation,
  • re-cords,
  • summarization,
  • re presentation,
  • summarizations,
  • re-citation.
  •description, reading (noun)
  • narration.
  •detraction (noun)
  • libel,
  • scandalmongering,
  • in justice,
  • running down,
  • pejoratives,
  • injustice,
  • muckraking.
  •disparagement (noun)
  • under-estimations,
  • de gradations,
  • underestimations,
  • lessening,
  • under-estimation,
  • dis-credits,
  • de-basement,
  • de-basements,
  • de-gradation,
  • dis credit,
  • dis credits,
  • de gradation,
  • de basement,
  • de basements,
  • underestimation,
  • dis-credit,
  • under estimation,
  • under estimations,
  • de-gradations.
  •epic (noun)
  • epic,
  • heroic poem,
  • heroic poems.
  •explanation (noun)
  • ex planation,
  • ex-ample,
  • ex-planation,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-play,
  • ex-planations,
  • ex planations,
  • de-tails,
  • re-solutions,
  • dis play,
  • talkings,
  • re solutions,
  • re-solution,
  • dis plays,
  • ex ample,
  • de tails,
  • tellings.
  •exposition (noun)
  • Tractate,
  • re views,
  • ex pose,
  • re-views,
  • re-view,
  • dis-course,
  • expoundings,
  • enucleations,
  • dis-courses,
  • thesis,
  • ex-position,
  • ex-pose,
  • re view,
  • construals,
  • ex pounding,
  • ex-pounding,
  • enucleation,
  • ex positions,
  • dis courses,
  • dis course,
  • ex position,
  • construal,
  • tractates,
  • ex-positions.
  •fable (noun)
  • old saw,
  • one for bird,
  • one for birds,
  • bestiaries,
  • hogwash,
  • one for the bird,
  • old saws,
  • fable,
  • un truths,
  • fairy story,
  • un-truth,
  • one for the birds,
  • un truth,
  • figment,
  • fairy stories,
  • bestiary,
  • un-truths.
  •fairy tale (noun)
  • fairy-tale,
  • ghost story.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fallaciousness,
  • falseness,
  • coverup,
  • half truths,
  • feigning,
  • dissimulation,
  • perjury,
  • mis-statement,
  • half truth,
  • Untruism,
  • cover up,
  • fakery,
  • fibbery.
  •falsity (noun)
  • fraudulences,
  • un candidness,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • mis representation,
  • in accuracy,
  • hypocrisy,
  • in fidelities,
  • un reality,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • uncandidness,
  • in-fidelities,
  • un realities,
  • un-realities,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • in-accuracies,
  • doubledealing,
  • un-reality,
  • in-sincerities,
  • un candidnesses,
  • deceptiveness,
  • Double dealing,
  • mis-representation,
  • in-accuracy,
  • un-candidness,
  • in-sincerity,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • unreality,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • unrealities,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • in accuracies,
  • mis representations,
  • mis-representations,
  • in sincerity,
  • in-fidelity,
  • in fidelity,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • un faithfulness,
  • fraudulence,
  • infidelity,
  • in sincerities.
  •fib (noun)
  • fib,
  • spinach,
  • spinaches.
  •fiction (noun)
  • cliff hangers,
  • clotheslines,
  • figment imagination,
  • cliff-hanger,
  • storytelling,
  • storytellings,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • clothesline,
  • work imagination,
  • potboiler,
  • work of imagination,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • terminological inexactitudes,
  • potboilers,
  • cliff hanger,
  • best seller,
  • figment of imagination.
  •fictitious story, often ancient (noun)
  • myth.
  •gossip (noun)
  • idle talk,
  • dirty linens,
  • back-fence talk,
  • gossip,
  • talebearing,
  • earful,
  • blether,
  • earfuls,
  • dirty linen,
  • back fence talks,
  • back-fence talks,
  • wire,
  • blethers,
  • backfence talks,
  • malicious talks,
  • back fence talk,
  • backfence talk,
  • idle talks,
  • news,
  • dirty washes,
  • malicious talk,
  • dirty wash.
  •hateful talk (noun)
  • Backbiting.
  •history (noun)
  • pre-histories,
  • auto-biography,
  • auto biographies,
  • prehistories,
  • pre history,
  • prehistory,
  • re capitulation,
  • pre-history,
  • auto-biographies,
  • re-capitulations,
  • re capitulations,
  • re-capitulation,
  • pre histories,
  • auto biography.
  •parable (noun)
  • lessons,
  • lesson.
  •popular belief (noun)
  • old wives' tale.
  •prose (noun)
  • fiction,
  • short story,
  • prosaicness,
  • storyline,
  • story,
  • parable,
  • scenario,
  • plot,
  • plainness,
  • episode,
  • reminiscence,
  • recount,
  • serial,
  • legend,
  • prose,
  • saga,
  • chronicle,
  • retelling,
  • novella,
  • narrative,
  • reading matter,
  • allegory,
  • yarn,
  • romance.
  •recital (noun)
  • musicales,
  • de-tailings,
  • detailings,
  • de tailings,
  • Musicale,
  • de tailing,
  • musicals,
  • de-tailing.
  •recital of items, often part of religious services (noun)
  • litany.
  •report (noun)
  • communique,
  • telegram,
  • communiques,
  • hot wire,
  • tidings,
  • write up.
  •reporting news (noun)
  • reportage.
  •romance (noun)
  • melodrama,
  • tearjerker,
  • tear jerker,
  • tear-jerkers,
  • melodramas,
  • idyll,
  • lyrics,
  • tearjerkers,
  • tear-jerker,
  • idylls,
  • love stories,
  • love story,
  • tear jerkers.
  •rumor (noun)
  • rumors.
  •scandal (noun)
  • dis honor,
  • eavesdroppings,
  • dis grace,
  • dis-graces,
  • idle rumors,
  • dis-honor,
  • dis honors,
  • dis-honors,
  • dis graces,
  • scandal,
  • dis-repute,
  • skeleton in closet,
  • idle rumor,
  • dis reputes,
  • dis-grace,
  • skeleton closet,
  • dis-reputes,
  • dis repute.
  •scandalous remark (noun)
  • slander.
  •short story (noun)
  • short-story,
  • short stories.
  •slander (noun)
  • mud-slinging.
  •story (noun)
  • relation,
  • folk tale.
  •strong criticism; detraction (noun)
  • disparagement.
  •tale (noun)
  • tarradiddle,
  • taradiddle.
  •talebearing (noun)
  • Gossipry.
  •talk about supposed truth (noun)
  • rumor.
  •total (noun)
  • flat outs,
  • full amounts,
  • full amount,
  • the work,
  • the works.
  •version (noun)
  • re-wording,
  • para phrase,
  • transcription,
  • redaction,
  • re-statement,
  • re-statements,
  • para phrases,
  • para-phrase,
  • para-phrases,
  • re statements,
  • re wording,
  • rewordings,
  • transcriptions,
  • simplifications,
  • simplification,
  • re wordings,
  • re-wordings,
  • redactions,
  • re statement.
  •yarn (noun)
  • sea story,
  • song dance,
  • sea stories.

• v.

  •tally (verb)
  • catalogging,
  • kept score,
  • wrote down,
  • writ down,
  • writes down,
  • catalogged,
  • keeps score.
  •tell (verb)
  • counted by one,
  • counting by one,
  • counts one by one,
  • counting one by one,
  • counts by one,
  • count by one,
  • counted one by one.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • running commentary,
  • model,
  • rigmarole,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • preview,
  • portrayal,
  • sob story,
  • description,
  • characterization,
  • version,
  • canard,
  • recitation,
  • panorama,
  • tall tale,
  • snapshot,
  • lie,
  • fish story,
  • numeration,
  • profile,
  • depiction.
  •
  • caricature,
  • buildup,
  • misstatement,
  • falsehood,
  • sketch,
  • misrepresentation,
  • image,
  • untruth,
  • Inveracity,
  • exposition,
  • aggregate,
  • explanation.
  •
  • falsity,
  • reckoning,
  • prevarication,
  • whopper,
  • enumeration.
  •
  • amount,
  • total,
  • totality.
  •calculate
  • tell.

Paraphrases for Tale:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    story, Stories.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    story.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fairytale.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Discoveries.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    novel, myth, storyline, anecdote.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    history, Histories, storytelling.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    fable, fairy, history, storytelling, affair.

Antonyms for Tale:

• n.

  • made-up story
    praise, honesty.
  • story
    non-fiction, truth.

Tale Sentence Examples:

• The story of Olympus is but a tale of what might have been and what might have been may yet come to pass.

• I tell the tale as 'tis left in me.

Homophones for Tale:

• tail.