confabulist
confabulist noun: one who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.
Noun
confabulist (plural confabulists)
- One who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.
- I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile.1849, Emma Robinson, Owen Tudor: An Historical Romance - Volume 2, page 26
- ... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother.1970, The People Their Rights and Liberties Their Duties and Their Interests
- Synonyms:
- confabulator
- One who invents elaborate stories, especially false ones misrepresented as if they were true.
- The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time.1995, Alexander McCall Smith, Heavenly Date: And Other Stories, page 121
- Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist.1998, Sally Clark, Wasps: A Drawing Room Comedy for Distempered Times, page 33
- Synonyms:
- confabulator
Adjective
confabulist (comparative more confabulist, superlative most confabulist)
- Involving the invention of elaborate stories.
- Why did he always come up with the most romantic and confabulist notions?2007, Edo Van Belkom, Robert Charles Wilson, Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, →ISBN, page 10
- The speculative drawings of architects raise the possibility that all architectural drawings, rather than representing a future building, are confabulist pre-enactments—that is, they tell the story of a world that may be, that could be, that might or even ought to be; but is not, and will never be.2016, Paul Emmons, Luc Phinney, “Introduction: homo fabula”, in Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture
Synonyms of confabulist
Forms of confabulist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | confabulists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more confabulist |
| superlative | most confabulist |
Questions about confabulist
- What does confabulist mean?
- Confabulist means one who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.
- What part of speech is confabulist?
- Confabulist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of confabulist?
- The plural of confabulist is confabulists.
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