Synonyms of the word tale


TALECONTENT - FIB - LIE - MESSAGE - NARRATION - NARRATIVE - PREVARICATION - STORY - SUBSTANCE - TARADIDDLE - TARRADIDDLE

tale

  • n. (obsolete) Number.
  • n. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language.
  • n. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  • n. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  • n. (rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  • n. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  • n. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  • n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story;…
  • n. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  • n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  • n. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence…
  • v. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  • v. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
  • n. Alternative form of tael.

content

  • n. (uncountable) That which is contained.
  • n. Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech.
  • n. The amount of material contained; contents.
  • n. Capacity for holding.
  • n. (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case…
  • adj. Satisfied about a particular circumstance; thus, in a state of satisfaction.
  • interj. (archaic) Alright, agreed.
  • n. Satisfaction; contentment.
  • n. (obsolete) acquiescence without examination.
  • n. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
  • n. (Britain, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
  • n. (Britain, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.
  • v. (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

fib

  • n. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
  • n. (informal, rare) A liar.
  • v. (intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
  • n. (medicine, informal) Short form of fibula.
  • v. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat;…

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

message

  • n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
  • n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
  • v. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
  • v. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
  • v. (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear as a message.

narration

  • n. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  • n. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction…
  • n. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

narrative

  • adj. Telling a story.
  • adj. Overly talkative; garrulous.
  • adj. Of or relating to narration.
  • n. The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  • n. That which is narrated.
  • n. A representation of an event or story.

prevarication

  • n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
  • n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

story

  • n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
  • n. A lie, fiction.
  • n. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
  • n. (obsolete) History.
  • n. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
  • v. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
  • n. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
  • n. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
  • n. (typography) Alternative form of storey.

substance

  • n. Physical matter; material.
  • n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  • n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  • n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  • n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
  • n. (theology) Hypostasis.

taradiddle

  • n. Alternative form of tarradiddle.

tarradiddle

  • n. A trivial lie, a fib.
  • n. Silly talk or writing; humbug.

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