fabulate
gb/fˈæbjəlˌeɪt/ us/fˈæbjəlˌeɪt/
C1
อังกฤษ
ความหมาย
0 ความหมาย
คำกริยา
literary
C1
action
1
invent or tell stories
To make up a story and tell it.
รูปแบบการใช้:
fabulate; fabulate about [something]; fabulate [a story/tale]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Do not confuse with fabricate; fabulate usually emphasizes storytelling and is rarer in everyday speech.
คำพ้องความหมาย
invent (More general; not specifically about telling a story.)
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fictionalize (Emphasizes turning real events into fiction.)
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spin (More informal; suggests shaping a story for effect.)
คำตรงข้าม
recount (To tell what actually happened rather than inventing.)
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report (To give factual information, especially in journalism.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
fabulate a story
|fabulate a tale
|fabulate narratives
|fabulate myths
|fabulate scenes
|fabulate episodes
|fabulate about the past
|fabulate freely
|fabulate imaginatively
|fabulate events
หัวข้อ
literature
|storytelling
|writing
|media
ตัวอย่าง
- In his lectures, he would fabulate new legends to illustrate philosophical ideas.
- The novelist fabul ates about lost kingdoms with the ease of someone remembering them.
- She began to fabulate a backstory for the minor character to make the scene feel real.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He likes to fabulate stories.
- She fabul ated about life in space.
คำกริยา
formal
C2
action
2
make up false details
To say things that are not true, often because you do not remember clearly.
รูปแบบการใช้:
fabulate; fabulate about [events/details]
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
This sense overlaps with confabulate; in medical contexts, confabulate is more common.
คำพ้องความหมาย
confabulate (More standard in clinical psychology for filling memory gaps.)
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fabricate (Often implies deliberate invention rather than memory-based invention.)
คำตรงข้าม
remember (To recall accurately instead of inventing.)
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verify (To check facts rather than making them up.)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
fabulate details
|fabulate explanations
|fabulate memories
|fabulate an account
|fabulate an excuse
|tend to fabulate
|fabulate unconsciously
|fabulate convincingly
หัวข้อ
psychology
|communication
ตัวอย่าง
- When pressed for specifics, he started to fabulate details that didn’t match the records.
- Under stress, some people may fabulate explanations for events they cannot recall clearly.
- The witness seemed to fabulate parts of the timeline to make the story coherent.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
- He fabul ated details because he forgot the truth.
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รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
fabulate
IPA
GB/fˈæbjəlˌeɪt/
US/fˈæbjəlˌeɪt/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
fab - u - late (3 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (fab)
รูปคำ
Verb
- Base: fabulate
- 3rd Person Singular: fabulates
- Present Participle: fabulating
- Past: fabulated
- Past Participle: fabulated
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
fabulates
verb
fabulating
verb
fabulated
verb
Core family
fabulation
noun C1
fable
noun B1
Related words
fabulous
adjective B1
fabulously
adverb C1
Advanced or less common
fabulist
noun
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