Fabrication
Pronunciation of Fabrication
/fˌabɹɪkˈe͡ɪʃən/, /fˌabɹɪkˈeɪʃən/, /f_ˌa_b_ɹ_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n/
Antonyms for fabrication:
disassembly, honesty, reality, dismantlement, dismantling, truthfulness, candor, frankness, veracity, verity.
Synonyms for fabrication:
Sense 1
misinformation, chimera, overproduction, mass production, mechanical, baloney, half-truth, white lie, disinformation, pretense, trick, Manufacturing, whopper, snow job, hokum, malarkey, Heavy Industry.
Sense 2
bull, jive, imagination, cover story, flannel, yarn, rumor, bluff, bs.
Sense 3
Sense 8
Sense 10
Sense 20
line.
construction
structure.
falsification
hoax.
overstatement
prevarication
Other synonyms and related words:
baloney, fiction, pretense, evasiveness, untruth, deceitfulness, rumor, allegory, falsity, imagination, story, disinformation, bull, hoax, novel, fable, meeting place, line, forum, industry, assembly, deceit, legend, exaggeration, equivocation, falsehood, apologue, structure, white lie, deception, Manufacturing, mendacity, jive, bluff, fib, assemblage, fairy tale, fantasy, fictionalization, malarkey, misinformation, figment, forgery, whopper, tale, hokum, myth, concoction, prevarication, lie, lying, parable, yarn, delusion, dissimulation, trick, gathering, fictionalisation, half-truth, chimera.
Sense 1 (noun)
half-truth, white lie, disinformation, misinformation.
Sense 2 (noun)
mass production, Heavy Industry.
act (noun)
fictionalisation, fictionalization.
composition (noun)
compilation, constitution, combination, inclusion, invention, embodiment.
creation (noun)
establishment, conception, origination.
exaggeration (noun)
fabrication (noun)
assembly, lying, fable, fictionalization, prevarication, fictionalisation, fiction, manufacture.
falsehood (noun)
imagination (noun)
making.
imitation (noun)
invention (noun)
fib.
lie (noun)
line, fable, concoction, deceit, fiction, fib, myth, yarn, untruth, forgery, falsehood, figment, invention, jive.
preparation (noun)
construction, formulation, arrangement, development, drafting, fostering, composition, equipment, mobilization, preparation.
production (noun)
building, making, creation, generation, production, formation, execution, manufacture.
something manufactured (noun)
assembly, building, assemblage, creation, production, construction.
untruth (noun)
lie.
Usage examples for fabrication:
- Concentrates on their fabrication, industrial applications, and potential markets. - "The Online World", Odd de Presno.
- Now he, or somebody, makes up Otterburne, " partly of stanzas from Percy's Reliques, which have undergone emendations calculated to disguise the source from which they came, partly of stanzas of modern fabrication, and partly of a few stanzas and lines from Herd's version." - "Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy", Andrew Lang.