Word Meanings - FIGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIGMENT)

• Fiction
• Invention
• fabrication
• creation
• figment
• fable
• falsehood
• romance
• myth

Related words: (words related to FIGMENT)

• CREATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to creation.
• CREATION
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had
• FIGMENT
  An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.
• CREATIONISM
  The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• FABLE
  1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison 2. The plot,
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• FABLER
  A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.
• INVENTION
  The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross , a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding
• FALSEHOOD
  1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction
• FABRICATION
  1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke. 2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication. Syn.
• ROMANCER
  One who romances.
• ROMANCE
  A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza. Syn. -- Fable; novel; fiction; tale. (more info) romans, romant, roman, F. roman, romance, fr. LL. Romanice in the Roman language, in the vulgar tongue,
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• INEFFABLE
  Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.
• OUTROMANCE
  To exceed in romantic character. Fuller.
• AFFABLE
  1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious;
• CHIROMANCER
  One who practices chiromancy. Dryden.
• RE-CREATION
  A forming anew; a new creation or formation.
• INAFFABLE
  Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.