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confabulate

Syllables: con·fab·ul·ateUK/kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/

confabulate verb: to speak casually with; to chat.

Verb

confabulate (third-person singular simple present confabulates, present participle confabulating, simple past and past participle confabulated)

  1. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
  2. (intransitive) To confer.
  3. (ambitransitive) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
    • "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response."1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ...

confabulate meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

confabulate in Urdu

بات چیت ہونا, گفتگو ہونا

confabulate in Bengali

কথা বলা, আড্ডা দেওয়া, স্মৃতি বিভ্রান্তি

confabulate in Kannada

ಹರಟು, ಕೂಡಿನುಡಿ, ಸಲ್ಲಾಪಿಸು, ಹರಟೆಹೊಡೆ, ಸುಳ್ಳು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಮಾಡು, ಮಿಥ್ಯಾಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಮಾಡು

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Forms of confabulate

third-person singular presentconfabulates
present participleconfabulating
past participleconfabulated
pastconfabulated

Origin of confabulate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin cōnfābulātus, perfect active participle of cōnfābulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from confabulate

Questions about confabulate

What does confabulate mean?
Confabulate means to speak casually with; to chat.
What is confabulate in Urdu?
Confabulate in Urdu is بات چیت ہونا, گفتگو ہونا. See Confabulate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is confabulate?
Confabulate is a verb.
How do you pronounce confabulate?
Confabulate is pronounced /kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of confabulate?
The past tense of confabulate is confabulated.

Words near confabulate in the dictionary

  1. confab
  2. confabbed
  3. confabbing
  4. confabs
  5. confabular
  6. confabulate
  7. confabulated
  8. confabulates
  9. confabulating
  10. confabulation
  11. confabulations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: confabulate (page history and authors); confabulate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confabulate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confabulate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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