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
- Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
- A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
- (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 !
Word Forms
- fabricatories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fabricated, factitious, made-up, trumped-up, tricked-up, fictitious.
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