🌱 Natural, unprocessed ✅ Genuine, true

unfabricated

7.2

Real and true, not made up by someone

adjective
/ʌnˈfæbrɪkeɪtɪd/

: genuino

Her account of the events was unfabricated and truthful.

Examples

This story is completely unfabricated!
We need unfabricated evidence to support these claims in court.
The witness provided an unfabricated account of what happened that night.
Her emotions were clearly unfabricated, showing how much she truly cared.
The witness provided an unfabricated account of what happened that night.
We need unfabricated evidence to support these claims in court.
Her emotions were clearly unfabricated, showing how much she truly cared.

Synonyms

unfalsified

vsunfabricated

1 6.1

Still in its original state and not changed or forged

emphasizes that it is not invented or made up

uninvented

vsunfabricated

7.2

Real and true, not made up

means the same but is an alternate form of the expression

Antonyms

false

906 1.0

Not true or correct

fabricated

19 6.0

Made up and not true, often to trick people

How Genuine

authentic

236 3.8

genuine

140 3.2

unfabricated

7.2

false

906 1.0

fabricated

19 6.0

Surface Forms

unfabricated positive

Morphology

unfabricated = fabricated (transparent) = un + fabricate + ed

The prefix 'un-' negates the adjective 'fabricated' (meaning 'invented' or 'forged'), so 'unfabricated' clearly means 'not invented/made up'.

Etymology

Unfabricated has un- 'not' and fabricate 'to make or invent', so it literally means 'not made up'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a true, honest story that is 'not invented', which is why the word means genuine or real.