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/ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtəː/ · noun
A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit..
He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.
It is notoriously possible for the author of a fictitious narrative to become, after a time, unable to distinguish it from a statement of actual facts. There is a case on record in which a learned judge communicated to the Psychical Society in perfect good faith a ghost story, all the principal features of which were proved to be imaginary. They had their origin in his own talent as a distinguished raconteur.
The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.
Use raconteur when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Raconteur means A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit..
Common synonyms include anecdotist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.
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