Synonyms of fairy tale

fairy tale

noun

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• fabrication
• fable
• mendacity
• falsehood
• taradiddle
• untruth
• prevarication
• falsity
• distortion
• whopper
• fiction
• tarradiddle
• ambiguity
• fib
• exaggeration
• defamation
• nonsense
• slander
• libel
• pose
• bluff
• perjury
• fraudulence
• misconception
• obliquity
• misrepresentation
• myth
• half-truth
• deceit
• pretence
• equivocation
• fallacy
• falsification
• misinformation
• misstatement
• pretense
• duplicity
• dishonesty
• humbug
• jive
• canard
• deceitfulness
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• honesty
• confirmation
• validation
• verification
• truthfulness
• truism
• veracity
• authentication
• verity
• substantiation

Examples of fairy tale in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The theme of Marie’s salon is fairy tales and proto-feminism. —Samuel Ashworth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

But to be a golden egg in the fairy tale, there would have to be a windfall of money from these sources. —Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024

The world isn’t divided into good people and bad people (despite what fairy tales and superhero movies tell us). —Sigal Samuel, Vox, 8 Sep. 2024

Luckily for me, there’s no shortage of fairy tale adaptations. —Heather Walter, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024