Fabulate

Quick meaning: Fabulate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.

Meaning

(intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.
3. A folk story that is not entirely believable.
4. (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.

Example Sentences

To jocular fabulates (Sherzfabulate) I place inter alia some of the “Tales of the Stupid Ogre” in Aarne’s Type Register.

It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.

Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.

Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.

Word Forms

• fabulates
• fabulating
• fabulated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fable, fangle, faken, fanfic, fanfaronade, farspeak.

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