ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fabricatory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Fabricatory is an adjective meaning Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.

Meaning

Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.

More Meanings

  1. Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
  2. A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
  3. (obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.

Example Sentences

Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”
He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.
It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are.
Those officers whom we have mentioned meeting may perhaps be puzzled over our identity and it would be as well to say that we are nebulous and intangible creatures, with a tendency towards fabricatory embellishment !

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Related dictionary entries include fabricated, factitious, made-up, trumped-up, tricked-up, fictitious.

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