Fabrication: meaning, example and synonyms
Fabricationn. Something invented to deceive; a false story or statement presented as true.
Example
The historian proved the famous letter a fabrication: its paper contained fibers not manufactured until decades after its supposed date.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Synonyms
- falsehood, invention, fiction, forgery
- Antonyms
- truth, fact, reality
- Memory tip
- To fabricate is to build: a fabrication is a story built from nothing.
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Check yourself: Fabrication in context
The journalist was dismissed after editors discovered that the quotations in her award-winning profile were pure ______; none of the people she cited had ever spoken to her.
Answer: fabrication. Quotes from people who never spoke to her were invented: fabrication. Exactitude, reverence and magnitude don't mean a made-up falsehood.
Investigators dismissed the witness's account as ______, since phone records placed him in another city on the night he claimed to have seen the crime.
Answer: fabrication. Records proving he was elsewhere show his story was invented. Elasticity, dearth and reverence don't describe a false account.