Definition for Yarn:

• Any spun thread esp. of kinds prepared for weaving, knitting, or ropemaking( y. -beam or roll, on which warp-threads are wound for weaving); ( colloq., esp. naut.) story, travellers tale, anecdote, rambling discourse, ( spin a y., yy., tell yy.; vb, spin yy.). [ old English]

Synonyms for Yarn:

• n.

  •
  • comedy,
  • detective,
  • adaptation,
  • classic,
  • drama,
  • twist.
  •
  • fabric,
  • fold,
  • crock,
  • alibi,
  • gather,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • lie,
  • material.
  •account (noun)
  • reminiscence.
  •conversation (noun)
  • rap.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • extravagance,
  • tall talk,
  • romance.
  •fairy tale (noun)
  • ghost story.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • Untruism.
  •fiber for knitting (noun)
  • spun wool,
  • flaxen thread,
  • fleece,
  • cotton fiber.
  •filament (noun)
  • filament,
  • hemp,
  • cilium,
  • fiber,
  • strand,
  • string.
  •prose (noun)
  • parable,
  • plainness,
  • myth,
  • episode,
  • plot,
  • chronicle,
  • serial,
  • retelling,
  • storyline,
  • prose,
  • prosaicness,
  • legend,
  • scenario,
  • allegory,
  • reading matter.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • wool,
  • webbing.
  •
  • textile,
  • pleat,
  • cloth,
  • drapery.
  •
  • bias.
  •
  • pile.
  •
  • cut.
  •Other relevant words:
  • ingrain,
  • cotton,
  • exhaustive,
  • scream,
  • exact,
  • colloque,
  • read,
  • exacting,
  • recitation,
  • expansion,
  • recounting,
  • chowchow,
  • delicate,
  • flimflam,
  • enlighten,
  • good story,
  • aggravate,
  • gooseberry,
  • point,
  • pile up,
  • connect,
  • punctual,
  • digress,
  • construe,
  • definite,
  • caricature,
  • Fabliau,
  • wire,
  • tarradiddle,
  • variegation,
  • detective story,
  • puff,
  • overestimate,
  • Hotchpot,
  • spin out,
  • Tertium Quid,
  • gag,
  • mystery,
  • painstaking,
  • pewter,
  • whodunit,
  • ligation,
  • howler,
  • visual joke,
  • adventure,
  • nylon,
  • fastidious,
  • piece,
  • funny story,
  • oakum,
  • clarify,
  • cable,
  • weave,
  • overdraw,
  • ligature,
  • jute,
  • sick joke,
  • visit,
  • mendacity,
  • braid,
  • farrago,
  • associate,
  • hyperbole,
  • relation,
  • magma,
  • nonsense,
  • ligament,
  • detailed,
  • precise,
  • laugh,
  • perfect,
  • edda,
  • stretch,
  • true,
  • Flam,
  • spun yarn,
  • Pasticcio,
  • critical,
  • potpourri,
  • fun,
  • ribbon,
  • refined,
  • folk tale,
  • perorate,
  • patchwork,
  • strain,
  • jumble,
  • epos,
  • explicit,
  • overpraise,
  • fibre,
  • whopper,
  • accurate,
  • ethnic joke,
  • cutting edge,
  • close,
  • song,
  • Blague,
  • untruth,
  • narrow,
  • reading,
  • layer,
  • comprehensive,
  • article,
  • salad,
  • overcharge,
  • illuminate,
  • record,
  • describe,
  • rope,
  • brighten,
  • Ambigu,
  • riot,
  • disorder,
  • thong,
  • mosaic,
  • packthread,
  • horror story,
  • sight gag,
  • petty,
  • good one,
  • prevarication,
  • whipcord,
  • jestbook,
  • refer,
  • amplify,
  • salmagundi,
  • protract,
  • ramble,
  • draw out,
  • overstate,
  • forgery,
  • line,
  • repeat,
  • recital,
  • fake,
  • minute,
  • falsification,
  • blue story,
  • enumerate,
  • coloring,
  • expand,
  • Olio,
  • play,
  • appertain,
  • angora,
  • fish tale,
  • brail,
  • relate,
  • odds and ends,
  • sidesplitter,
  • wheeze,
  • dirty joke,
  • sea story,
  • melange,
  • amalgam,
  • overlay,
  • sham,
  • Anecdotage,
  • tendon,
  • legal fiction,
  • taradiddle,
  • thriller,
  • Gest,
  • sensitive,
  • medley,
  • chin,
  • hyperbolize,
  • careful,
  • chat,
  • fringe,
  • mash,
  • apply,
  • sauce,
  • little white lie,
  • Battologize,
  • rigorous,
  • exaggerate,
  • Gallimaufry,
  • wow,
  • jape,
  • mess,
  • elucidate,
  • twister,
  • ballad,
  • alloy,
  • falsity,
  • olla-podrida,
  • fantasy,
  • miscellany,
  • half-and-half,
  • song and dance,
  • dirty story,
  • Geste,
  • brass,
  • yarns,
  • history,
  • tape,
  • panic,
  • rehearse,
  • converse,
  • magnify,
  • white lie,
  • jest,
  • swell out,
  • belly laugh,
  • embroidery,
  • sport,
  • half-truth,
  • hawser,
  • illumine.

Paraphrases for Yarn:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    thread.
  • Noun, plural
    strands, yams, twines, tracers, stitches, leads, cables, kids, boys.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    thread, strand, twine.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    progresses, moves, reflects, evolves, passes, goes.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wool, fabric, gauze, lanyard, wiring, cord.

Antonyms for Yarn:

• n.

  • story, often long and made-up
    truth.

Hyponym for Yarn:

• v.

  • communication
    tell, recount, narrate, recite.