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to fabular

to fabular

9.9
To tell or make up creative stories that teach a lesson
  • verb
  • /ˈfæbjələr/
translation icon : fabulizar
  • The old storyteller would fabular enchanting tales by the fireside each evening.

Examples

  • Every evening, he would fabular intricate fables that blurred the lines between reality and imagination.

  • The children fabular stories every night.

  • In ancient times, poets would fabular legends to entertain the royal court.

  • He loved to fabular about mythical creatures and distant lands to amuse his friends.

  • She loves to fabular tales of adventure.

  • The old storyteller would fabular enchanting tales that captivated the children at bedtime.

  • She would gather her friends around to fabular stories of daring adventures and mythical beasts.

Synonyms

to spin a story
vsto fabular
1 4.8

Make up and tell a tale, often to entertain or avoid trouble

is more about creating fanciful fictional tales rather than just exaggerating facts
to yarn
vsto fabular
  • Informal
1 6.7

To tell a long story that is probably not true

focuses on creating short fable-like imaginative stories not long implausible ones

How Imaginative

to invent
532 3.1
to fabricate
50 7.3
to fabular
9.9
to narrate
59 4.0
report
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

fabular infinitive
fabularized past
fabularized past participle
fabularizing present participle
fabularizes third person singular

Morphology

fabular = fable (transparent) = fable + ar

The verb meaning 'to tell or invent fables' is transparently formed from 'fable' with the verbal/adjectival suffix '-ar' indicating 'do with/about fables'.

Etymology

Fabular as a verb comes from the Latin fabulari 'to tell a story', the same root as fable, so to fabular is to tell or invent imaginative, often mythical, tales.