fable

fable is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
2. noun. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
3. noun. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
4. noun. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
5. intransitive verb. To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
6. transitive verb. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
7. noun. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

   Synonyms: legend

8. noun. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

   Synonyms: allegory, apologue, parable

9. noun. a deliberately false or improbable account

   Synonyms: fabrication, fiction

Synonyms

legend, allegory, apologue, parable, fabrication, fiction

Common word forms

fabled, fabler, fables, fabling

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