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fabricated

fabricated

6.0
Made up and not true, often to trick people
  • adjective
  • /ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪtɪd/
translation icon : fabricado
  • The journalist was fired for publishing a fabricated story that misled readers.

But if it's fabricated, that's really sad.

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Examples

  • They are speech that's hateful, you know, often making fabricated allegations.

  • It may be a totally fabricated version of a character, but it needs to connect with flesh and blood in a physical space.

  • In this case, these are some custom fabricated things that I did.

  • Like the thought of that, it's just this like fabricated environment, like very, very anxious.

  • Yeah, it's it's, it would be impossible for them to design fabricated whole creature in a week's time.

  • But if it's fabricated, that's really sad.

  • Also, can wean plant fabricated memories in some way?

  • Well, therefore, he said the workshops where ideals are fabricated, they stink of lies.

  • But it's like this fabricated ersatz version of it and everyone sort of does all the stuff inside the play acting set that is this little sort of universe they've created.

  • She realized that the evidence presented in court was fabricated and not genuine.

Synonyms

fake
vsfabricated
833 1.8

Not real and made to look like something real

is created without genuineness and may deceive or be imagined
fictional
vsfabricated
106 3.4

Made up in stories or in your mind, not real

is created either to deceive or as a product of imagination
fictitious
vsfabricated
31 5.1

Not real and made up

is created and can aim to deceive or exist only in imagination
illusory
vsfabricated
12 7.0

Seeming to be real but not really there

is created or invented rather than merely appearing false
trumped-up
vsfabricated
9 7.9

Fake charges made to blame someone unfairly

is created either to deceive or from imagination
make-believe
vsfabricated
3 3.7

Imaginary and made to seem real for play or stories

is imagined or invented and can instead be used to deceive
forged
vsfabricated
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5.1

Made to look real to trick people

is invented rather than copied and can be deceptive or imagined

Antonyms

156 3.2

Truly felt and not fake, for example a smile or apology

121 1.3

Always saying what really happened and not lying

How True

true
2 6.5
false
715 1.0
fabricated
6.0

Surface Forms

fabricated positive

Morphology

fabricated = fabricate (transparent) = fabricate + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participle form of the verb 'fabricate', so its formation and meaning ('made up') are directly derived.

Etymology

Fabricated comes from an old Latin word fabricare meaning 'to make', and it is the same root as fabric ('cloth'). So fabricated means 'made' or 'made up', and when we call a story fabricated we mean it was 'made up' often to deceive.