| 单词 | confabulate |
| 释义 | confabulate (once / 23267 pages) 1v 2v Confabulate is a fancy way of saying “talk.” If you’re feeling formal, you don’t chat with your best friend on the phone, you confabulate. Regular people talk, people wearing tuxedos and beaded evening gowns confabulate. Confabulate means to talk, but it also refers to creating a memory that’s unreal, like a fable, without being aware of it. If you suffer from memory loss, you might confabulate to fill in the blanks. The word comes from the Latin com- for "together" and fabulari for "to talk," which comes from fabula for "a tale." Whew. For a long time, confabulate just meant “to talk,” but the psychiatric sense came later. WORD FAMILYconfabulate: confabulated, confabulating, confabulation+/confabulation: confabulations USAGE EXAMPLESThe man has spent his entire career, womanizing, ripping people off, confabulating, lying, overtly cheating others and discriminating against minorities. New York Times(Aug 22, 2016) We'll leave it to you to decide / argue / confirm / deny / corroborate / confabulate. The Verge(Dec 07, 2015) Consider P.S., the teenager who confabulated about chickens and shovels. Scientific American(May 16, 2014) 1 1v talk socially without exchanging too much information Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze talk idly or casually and in a friendly way converse, discourse carry on a conversation 2v have a conference in order to talk something over 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper confab, confer, consult collogue confer secretly discuss, hash out, talk over speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion v unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory Hyper cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture make up something artificial or untrue |
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