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单词 fabrication
释义

fabrication

noun

fab·​ri·​ca·​tion ˌfa-bri-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce fabrication (audio)
1
: the act or process of fabricating
2
: a product of fabrication
especially : lie, falsehood

Synonyms

  • fable
  • fairy tale
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fib
  • lie
  • mendacity
  • prevarication
  • story
  • tale
  • taradiddle
  • tarradiddle
  • untruth
  • whopper
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Example Sentences

her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers
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Word History

Etymology

Middle English fabricacionne, borrowed from Latin fabricātiōn-, fabricātiō, from fabricāre, fabricārī "to fashion, shape, construct" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at fabricate

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

fabrication

noun

fab·​ri·​ca·​tion ˌfab-ri-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce fabrication (audio)
: confabulation

fabrication

noun

1
as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • lie
  • tale
  • story
  • prevarication
  • fib
  • fairy tale
  • falsehood
  • mendacity
  • distortion
  • untruth
  • falsity
  • fiction
  • tarradiddle
  • fable
  • exaggeration
  • taradiddle
  • whopper
  • fraudulence
  • ambiguity
  • defamation
  • falsification
  • slander
  • misrepresentation
  • libel
  • perjury
  • deceit
  • myth
  • nonsense
  • equivocation
  • bluff
  • half-truth
  • duplicity
  • dishonesty
  • misconception
  • canard
  • pose
  • fallacy
  • misstatement
  • misinformation
  • pretense
  • pretence
  • deceitfulness
  • obliquity
  • jive
  • humbug
  • misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • truth
  • fact
  • verification
  • validation
  • truthfulness
  • veracity
  • confirmation
  • verity
  • substantiation
  • truism
  • honesty
  • authentication
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2
as in fiction
something that is the product of the imagination the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • fiction
  • novel
  • figment
  • tale
  • story
  • invention
  • fantasy
  • misrepresentation
  • narrative
  • phantasy
  • yarn
  • fable
  • prevarication
  • lie
  • anecdote
  • falsehood
  • fib
  • fairy tale
  • falsity
  • untruth
  • mendacity
  • make-believe
  • whopper

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • fact
  • reality
  • materiality
  • actuality
  • realness
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